here's the deal, if I have a square wave in Pd running at 1 -1 peak to peak, then you say that should be my maximum output, right?
Thing is that if I give it an extra boost (say, multiply it by 2) I can clearly listen an increase in loudness. Hence, something in my system is allowing some headroom to be output. I got a macbook air from 2010 running 10.7.5... if Pd is not responsible for this, maybe my hardware + Mac OS is? here's the patch, try yourselves and tell me what you get please. Cheers #N canvas 653 26 257 182 10; #X obj 79 97 dac~; #X obj 85 41 square~ 440; #X floatatom 125 72 5 0 0 0 - - -; #X obj 85 70 *~; #X connect 1 0 3 0; #X connect 2 0 3 1; #X connect 3 0 0 0; #X connect 3 0 0 1; 2013/12/21, IOhannes m zmölnig <[email protected]>: > On 2013-12-21 14:58, peiman khosravi wrote: >> However, it's probably wise to clip the signal before sending it to dac~. >> Entirely for health and safety reasons! > > this really depends...a clipping sine will have loads of high > frequencies that might be equally damaging to your audience. > > if you want to be safe, use math to make sure that your signal won't > exceed -1..+1 before sending to the [dac~]. > > or use a limiter (zexy has a handy one). > > fgmrdsa > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
