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

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

On Mar 05 17:04:04, robs wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps I am missing something here,
> >but how would that make gains not clip?
> 
> 
> Because FP can represent very large numbers, clipping in the effects chain becomes very unlikely, and a (downwards) normalisation could be applied at the end of chain to bring things back in check.

I still don't get it: on my system, sizeof(float) = 4.
How can four-byte floats represent larger dynamic range
than four-bytes integers (which, if I remember right,
is currently SoX's internal sample format)?

	Jan