Re: [chuck-users] Heavy distortion/clipping in Windows (Kassen)

2015-02-26 Thread Kassen
Hey, Robert! On 26 February 2015 at 06:50, Robert Poor rdp...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Kassen signal.automati...@gmail.com wrote: [on windows] turning down the volume to a comfortable level won't help against that explosion Are you saying there's no way to

Re: [chuck-users] Heavy distortion/clipping in Windows (Kassen)

2015-02-25 Thread Perry Cook
distortion/clipping in Windows (Kassen) Message: 2 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:44:05 +0100 From: Kassen signal.automati...@gmail.com To: ChucK Users Mailing List chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu Subject: Re: [chuck-users] Heavy distortion/clipping in Windows Message-ID

Re: [chuck-users] Heavy distortion/clipping in Windows (Kassen)

2015-02-25 Thread Kassen
Perry, This very same code would cause hideous distortion on a Windows/ Linux machine, because those audio subsystems have a hard limit on the amplitude that can be sent into the dacs. Mac seems to have figured out a how to deal with this in a very different (floating point) way. Yes, I

Re: [chuck-users] Heavy distortion/clipping in Windows (Kassen)

2015-02-25 Thread Robert Poor
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Kassen signal.automati...@gmail.com wrote: [on windows] turning down the volume to a comfortable level won't help against that explosion Are you saying there's no way to turn down the *output* of the DACs? ___

Re: [chuck-users] Heavy distortion/clipping in Windows

2015-02-19 Thread Perry Cook
Ack! This is a common problem, and I thought I had caught all of the clipping/distortion cases on Windows/Linux with our last passes on checking the source code. I'll check it all again and put it in our Errata file for future ChucK/Mini releases, and future printings of the book. As others