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

[Miller Puckette]

Yep... I tried 4, 6, and 8 channels; 4 and 8 worked, but not 6.
I'll look at it...

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:01:13PM +0100, smoerk wrote:
> 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