[Freepats] Pipe organ example

[Mark Constable]

On Sunday 13 August 2006 01:27, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
> For our purposes I think that 24 or 16 bit will be ok. 32 bit file is
> too large, can't be compressed with flac and quality improvement
> shouldn't be noticeable while listening.

Totally agree (subjectively, without objective testing).

I'm pretty sure 32bit/floating-point is the internal format
used by Ardour and perhaps other sample editors and mixers.

> The advantage of floating point is while editing or processing,
> because of non-linearity and open range. Floating point does not clip;
> for example, you can record most time at 0.0 - 200.0 range, but if
> there is a loud peak or unexpected amplitude increase in middle of
> recording session, it will be happily recorded using higher values
> (500.0, 60000.0, 10^8...). There is an enormous dynamic range. And
> there are always detail for sounds at very low amplitude. For example,
> between values 0.0 and 0.01 there are still lots of decimal values. As
> another advantage, less quantization noise is added when processing or
> mixing.

Thanks for the details. Good info.

--markc