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

[Ulrich K. <ul...@ch...>]

robs <aq...@ya...>:

> Yes, clipping detection is slow, but it can be useful to know that  
> clipping has occurred in a particular effect as if you're pretty  
> sure that your effect chain shouldn't clip then its a flag to let  
> you know you've mistyped something (or some other process has gone  
> wrong) before or at the point of clipping.
>
> It can also be a concious decision to allow clipping to occur in an  
> effect (acting as a crude limiter) to avoid normalisation (perhaps  
> pushing down the volume of the whole track for the sake of one rogue  
> peak).

I remembered reading this thread on Hydrogenaudio where someone  
explicitly wants to do clipping:  
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=93150
So, yes, I guess a "clip" effect could be needed that is inserted at  
the end of an FP effects chain automatically (at least when writing an  
integer-based file format) or can be inserted manually where desired.

A normalization stage (that can't be turned off) is not what I'd like to have.

Ulrich