Re: .aiff wrapping?

Hi James,

I'm guessing that turning on the clipping flag for writing floats would not be a
good idea because you will lose all data above magnitude 1 in the written file.
 That would defeat the purpose of writing as floats, wouldn't it?

I can just record as int32.  The loss of data due to clipping isn't a problem
for me. I prefer WYHIWYG. ;)

Thanks,
Lance

Quoting James McCartney <asynth-Xhj3G7Rj6JI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>
> You're right. It appears that 32 bit gets saturated, but 16 bit wraps.
> I had assumed that libsndfile does clipping, but you have to set a flag
> SFC_SET_CLIPPING. I write in floating point format, so I didn't notice
> this.
>
> On Aug 26, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Lance Putnam wrote:
>
> > Try recording this using 'int32' and then 'float32' and tell me if you
> > hear a
> > difference in Finder.
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