Re: [SoX-users] toward floating-point?

[Jan S. <ha...@st...>]

On Mar 05 10:20:34, Cory Nelson wrote:
> The more I play around with sox, the more annoying it is to constantly
> guess what gain to apply to avoid clipping (-G doesn't work for
> everything).
> 
> I know changing at this point would be a large effort but I'm still
> curious, why does sox use integers instead of floating-point?  It'd
> easily avoid this problem and is as fast if not faster than integer
> math on modern CPUs.

Perhaps I am missing something here,
but how would that make gains not clip?