Re: [LAU] About Algorithms

From: Moshe Werner <moshwe@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Jul 19 2011 - 18:24:44 EEST

This is one of the reasons I love Linux, knowledgeable supportive people
talking straight to the point.
If I would've asked such a question in the pt forum or something like that,
I would've got a whole bunch of PT hype and not these concrete points you
all made here.
I sure got something to read now.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Charles Henry <czhenry@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Folderol <folderol@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:34 -0400
> > Paul Coccoli <pcoccoli@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Dale Powell <dj_kaza@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
> >> > Agree on the whole that summing is summing is summing. Most DAWs these
> days
> >> > will use floating point (either 32bit or double precision) and A+B=C
> no
> >> > matter what.
> >>
> >> Isn't all this "A+B=C" stuff (or A*x+B*y=C as one person stated)
> >> actually begging the question a bit? Are we certain that every DAW
> >> implements their mixer that way? Isn't it possible that some might
> >> try to model analog mixers to some degree?
> >>
> >> I'm not arguing either way; I have no clue.
> >
> > I think you'll find that fundamentally an analogue mixer *is* A+B=C
>
> To the extent that modeling actual analog mixers would be useless.
>
> The amplifiers in analog mixers do have non-flat spectrum (as all
> amplifiers have a limited gain-bandwidth product and phase-shift at
> high frequencies). However, the equipment is so designed as to have a
> nearly constant phase and gain over the range of audio frequencies.
>
> Plus, add noise. Both of which you could do intentionally, instead of
> having some software black box that does it without telling you :)
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-audio-user mailing list
> Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
>

_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
Received on Tue Jul 19 20:15:02 2011

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jul 19 2011 - 20:15:02 EEST