On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 09:45 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On 21 Jul 2007, at 13:56, Dan Mills wrote: > > Be very careful how you write float->int conversions (it is not > > trivial), and work in floating point as far as is possible, there is > > little reason (other then marketing) to move to doubles (IIR filters > > possibly excepted). > > Well, I'd qualify that as there's no need to use doubles between > modules, there are many DSP processes that work better in double if > you can afford the extra memory bandwidth. Filters are one.
Granted. > It's generally not doubles in the audio path though, but its things > that you're using to modify it, coefficients, phase accumulators and > so on. I was thinking mainly about some commercial DAWs that boast of stupid word length accumulators for mix buses and the like. I never did understand that. Regards, Dan. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
