<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the quick reply!<br><br>Do you have any idea why before I configured Jack with force 16 bit I had distorted sound when playing back audio in ardour?<br>Now I'm trying to use rosegarden and got the same problem, but now with MIDI.<br>
I'm a bit lost here.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Arnold Krille <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnold@arnoldarts.de">arnold@arnoldarts.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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On Wednesday 27 July 2011 12:42:48 Moshe Werner wrote:<br>
> I thought I'll try some different settings within Jack, so I set the "Force<br>
> 16 bit" parameter in Jack, while Ardour is still set to "Sample Format"=32<br>
> bit floating point.<br>
> Now the distortion is gone but I don't know if it was the right thing to<br>
> do. Anyone knows why this helped me? And more than this, did I do the<br>
> right thing or have I done something really stupid...<br>
<br>
</div>Ardour and jack will always communicate their audio via float (that is 32bit<br>
real numbers). As only very few devices implement that, most devices are<br>
talked to in integer-numbers. The newer ones are capable of doing 24bit<br>
integers, some older ones are fixed to 16bit integers. So forcing jack to talk<br>
to the audio-device in 16bit might give you lower quality during playback and<br>
recording but it will not affect the internal quality of the sound processing<br>
done inside jack and ardour and all the apps. And files exported from ardour<br>
will also not be affected by that jack-setting.<br>
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