So does Ardour allow 32-bit float values to exceed +/-1.0? Audacity does not seem to allow this. -Greg
--- Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:42 -0400, Phil Frost wrote: > > > > > I would suspect that many ardour sessions contain WAVs with floats which > > came from a 24 or 16 bit source. I haven't looked at the jack source, > > but it seems to me that the conversion between 32 bit floats in +/- 1 > > and 24 bit integers can be lossless. A trivial archiver could do this > > conversion and make the session roughly 75% of the original size. > > not if any of them had a gain value or plugin processing that created > even a single sample exceeding the 0dBFS value of 1.0. > > people who want to save 25% of their file space (and risk losing >0dBFS > values to clipped ones) with ardour can just go to Options -> Audio File > Format -> Data and select "24 bit". > > --p > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-dev
