[PD] editing pd silence

[Pierre-Olivier Boulant]

Hi,

I think you are talking about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_shaping

Cheers
Pierre-Olivier

On 22/10/2011 15:29, martin brinkmann wrote:
> On 10/22/2011 02:39 PM, saskia diez wrote:
>
>> I just discover this since i bought a nice speakers, before i
>> havent realize that sound editors add that hiss.
> i could hardly believe that, but you are right! i have just created a
> file with writesf~, ensured that it contained only zeros (hexeditor),
> loaded it in audacity, exported as 16bit wav, and after normalizing,
> there was a lot of noise.
>
>> Why is that? is it possible to avoid that?
> dithering maybe? i have checked with another editor (mhwaveedit), and
> it did not add noise. so using another editor would be a solution. or
> saving in another format than 16bit wav ("other uncompressed format"
> in audacity), you would need another program to convert the file for
> buring on cd (or whatever) though.
>
> bis denn!
> 	martin
>