On 04/26/2011 11:19 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Bot is not necessarily true. Audio levels inside jack can well be beyond
> [-1:1] without any clipping. Inside jack its all float-numbers, they don't clip
> anywhere in the range of typical audio usage.
>
> Only the conversion to integers for the sound-device is the place where
> clipping happens. And at that place the convention is to map the range [-1:1]
> to whatever integers the bit-depth of the device has.
Also when exporting to files in non-float formats, like the common 16
bit integer WAV.
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