[PD] audio bit resolution in Pd

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 20:12:01 CEST 2015


but how come, since you can also get audio stream with values over the
boundaries of -1 & 1?

cheers

2015-04-22 15:04 GMT-03:00 Jamie Bullock <jamie at jamiebullock.com>:

>
> Pd is 32-bit *floating point*, so you have 32-bit resolution between -1
> and 1. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
>
> best,
>
> Jamie
>
> --
> http://jamiebullock.com
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:26 pm, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, I know pd operates in 32bit precision, but that is for all numbers out
> there, which can be data control or audio streams. Now, output audio values
> is actually just from -1 to 1, so we can't say that the audio output in Pd
> is 32 bits.
>
> So I wonder what is the actual audio bit resolution that we have in Pd.
>
> Cheers
>
>
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