Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Sample Rates / Sample Sizes
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 20:04:04 EEST
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:52:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Steve,
> I misspoke really. I guess I should have just said Linux/Alsa/Jack
> dithering solutions. It's sort of immaterial to me whether dither is
> done within LADSPA as an output plugin in Ardour or done somewhere else
> like Jamin where maybe it's totally built in. My comment was intended to
> acknowledge my lack of specific technical knowledge in the environment
> that most people on this list work in. Clearly the idea that there is a
> float t int conversaion taking place is I guess pretty obvious when you
> talk about dithering, even to me, but LADSPA internals are certainly not
> my forte! ;-)
>
> Thanks for the clarifications though. It does raise an interesting
> difference between something like Ardour, I guess, and Pro Tools where I
> can insert a dithering plugin pretty much anyplace in the signal chain
> if I choose to. Maybe the RTAS standard makes some decision to go to int
> based on where the output is going? I don't know.
I suspect that the difference is that in RTAS the conversion is specified
(well, as theres only one host, it /is/ specified ;).
- Steve
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