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

[robs <aq...@ya...>]

From: Cory Nelson <ph...@gm...>
>To: sox...@li... 
>Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012, 16:20
>Subject: [SoX-users] toward floating-point?
> 
>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).
>
>Do you have an example?  There may be a fix or a work-around.


>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's largely historical: in 1991, few could afford an FPU and sox was primarily a format (header) conversion tool. These days, almost all the effects use floating-point, so building an integer-only version of sox is not really on.

Cheers,
Rob