[PD] soundfiler dealing with floats

[Nick Fells]

Hi,

Having a headache saving floating point samples with Soundfiler. It
works fine, and I guess this is not really a Pd problem, but my editor
(CoolEdit Pro, winNT) can't open Sun/Next files which use floats (doh)
:(

Similarly Soundfiler can't save wav or aiff using floats, only Sun/Next
(doh) :(

I can't seem to write a floating point sound as raw data either - only
as ASCII text using 'write' message to an array, and the editor takes
ages to interpret the text..... :(

I could 'con' CEP to open the Next floating point files as raw data,
then manually cut off the header blip - except I can't find the right
floating point format in CEP. The options are:

32-bit IEEE float (0.24) 
32-bit IEEE float (16.8)
32-bit IEEE float (24.0)
24-bit packed Intel PCM
24-bit packed Motorola PCM

and then 'Offset input data by: 0 +1 +2 +3'.

Anyone have any suggestions? (apologies for this not really being a
'pure-pure-data' issue, as it were).

nick

guenter geiger wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nicolas Lhommet wrote:
> > And I hope all these companies will write some open source drivers for Linux
> > in the future, when we'll have the best multimedia platform, thanks to
> > Demudi distribution :) :
> > http://www.demudi.org/
> > Yes, I'm optimistic !
> 
> :) ,
> 
> It's nice that someone is doing the "marketing" for us, I am just coming
> back from the first official demudi meeting, where I had the chance to
> meet in person "Mr Linux Audio" Dave Philipps as well as "Mr Ardour" Paul
> Davies, who, btw told me that ALSA will provide support for RME's PCMCIA
> card, but not quite yet, ... so in a few months it will be here, hopefully
> early enough to be included into the first release of DeMuDi.
> 
> Guenter

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