4 Nov
2008
4 Nov
'08
3:19 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 14:08 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Paul Davis wrote:
that doesn't meet my understanding of the term "on the fly".
look, normalization is a simple process: find the loudest sample. get
the ratio of its value to the maximum possible sample value. multiply
every sample by this ratio. done. no shortcuts, but also no complexity.
what you seem to be after is a compressor, which will keep the level of
the output within some defined range. entirely different beastie.
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:25 +0700, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
Even if we are talking about a static collection of audio files? Just out of interest how much processor power
would it take to normalise
on the fly?
it doesn't need a CPU, it would need a time machine to travel into the
future to measure the loudest sample still to come.