Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Export to 24-bit PCM wav?

[Esben S. <b0...@es...>]

Dave Fancella <da...@da...> writes:

> 24-bit is "lossless", or so I hear.  

You got more headroom when processing effects; a lot more dynamic

> 48k isn't good enough because the human ear is capable of hearing
> higher frequencies than that.

I hope you don't mean that;). 

> few that can hear even higher frequencies

;)

> some sound card drivers will do it in software before passing it to
> the hardware, transparent to the end-user.

The code in alsa is bad; it should have been libsndfile/libsamplerate.

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