Andy, Great idea, I'll keep that in mind.
You are correct, [throw~]/[catch~] does not contain a set maximum value. In the process of swapping out the cascading [+~] objects, I introduced a "feature" to the system which was causing the distortion. Cheers, ~Brandon On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Andy Farnell <padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk>wrote: > > > I looked for that in dsp_add() myself, but couldn't see it. > > On a practical note; having long suspected this while working > with numbers of [throw~][catch~] buses at the mix stage it > helps to introduce DC traps before every [throw~]. > > A solution where you have a seemingly untracable offset that > messes all your [throw~][catch~] system, is to use a [delwrite~ a 1] > and several [delread~ a 1] objects in place of [throw~] and [catch~] > > > On Sat, 02 May 2009 23:49:35 -0400 > Martin Peach <martin.pe...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > brandon zeeb wrote: > > > Hey PD-List, > > > > > > Has the throw~/catch~ system been designed to have a different > available > > > headroom than standard [+~] and [*~] objects? > > > > > > I've been designing a few polyphonic patches and have decided to use > > > throw~/catch~ instead of hard-wiring the summing bus. I've found that > > > when the signal approaches 1.0, distortion occurs. Has this been > > > designed as such for a reason? > > > > > > > Yes, [throw~] and [catch~] and all the other dsp objects can handle > > signals up to the limits of the float type in the c programming > > language. However 1.0 is designed to correspond to the highest voltage > > the dac in your sound card can send to your amplifier. Any sample value > > above 1.0 or below -1.0 will be clipped to those limits. > > The output of a summing bus with subsequent processing will start > > clipping before any individual signal actually reaches 1.0. > > > > Martin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > -- > Use the source > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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