[LAU] About Algorithms

Folderol folderol at ukfsn.org
Mon Jul 18 22:03:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:34 -0400
Paul Coccoli <pcoccoli at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Dale Powell <dj_kaza at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Agree on the whole that summing is summing is summing. Most DAWs these days
> > will use floating point (either 32bit or double precision) and A+B=C no
> > matter what.
> 
> Isn't all this "A+B=C" stuff (or A*x+B*y=C as one person stated)
> actually begging the question a bit?  Are we certain that every DAW
> implements their mixer that way?  Isn't it possible that some might
> try to model analog mixers to some degree?
> 
> I'm not arguing either way; I have no clue.

I think you'll find that fundamentally an analogue mixer *is* A+B=C

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