[PD] writesf~: 96kHz/24bit to 44.1k/16bit?

[smoerk]

hello miller,

i recorded a session with "open -bytes 4 x.snd" as a 6 channel file. now this 
file sounds very distorted, when i'm playing it in pd or ecasound (32bit float). 
did i something wrong or is this a bug in pd? i thought -bytes 4 would write a 
32bit file. i wonder if this is clipping noise or if there is something wrong in 
the order of the bits and if there is a way to repair the recording.

thanks,
smoerk

Miller Puckette wrote:
> Oops.  It looks like I never put this in the help window.
> 
> "open -bytes 3 x.wav" will open a 24-bit stream.  You can also do 32-bit
> floats, but only in ".snd" format (I didn't know at the time that wav
> files apparently can hold floating point too.)
> 
> cheers
> Miller