[LAD] LADPSA and LV2 Sample Types

[Will Godfrey]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:34:34 +0100
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> I need to correct a mistake in what I wrote yesterday.
> 
> VST3 does support double precision samples, and for whatever inexplicable
> reason even makes it the default.
> 
> Thanks to Robin Gareus for pointing this out.
> 
> Also, to follow on from something Fons wrote: an actual 32 bit sample value
> would have at least the low 4-6 bits representing brownian (atomic) motion.
> That's pretty crazy.

Adding to this, even 16 bit has a dynamic range of over 90dB. There is a quite
dramatice demo at that depth of a garage door being slammed after the
demonstrater talks rather quietly - sorry, I can't find it now.

By the time you reach 24bit, you're well below any reasonable accoustic noise
level, and are getting into the region of thermal noise in analogue equipment.

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