[PD] audio > 1.0 not clipping?

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sun Sep 11 07:49:52 CEST 2011


On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Rich E wrote:

> Does anyone know why this doesn't clip?:
> [osc~ 200]
> |
> [*~ 1.5]
> |
> [dac~]
> 
> I'm trying this using pd 0.43 and the audio still sounds good (although 
> some extra harmonics can be heard), despite the phases being in the 
> range of [-1.5, 1.5]... ?

No, you mean the amplitude is 1.5. You're not doing anything about the 
phase (and anyway, it's relative, so you can only hear phase difference, 
not phase).

If you hear extra harmonics, then it has to be already clipping. What 
makes you think that it isn't ?

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