On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:52:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Steve, > I misspoke really. I guess I should have just said Linux/Alsa/Jack > dithering solutions. It's sort of immaterial to me whether dither is > done within LADSPA as an output plugin in Ardour or done somewhere else > like Jamin where maybe it's totally built in. My comment was intended to > acknowledge my lack of specific technical knowledge in the environment > that most people on this list work in. Clearly the idea that there is a > float t int conversaion taking place is I guess pretty obvious when you > talk about dithering, even to me, but LADSPA internals are certainly not > my forte! ;-) > > Thanks for the clarifications though. It does raise an interesting > difference between something like Ardour, I guess, and Pro Tools where I > can insert a dithering plugin pretty much anyplace in the signal chain > if I choose to. Maybe the RTAS standard makes some decision to go to int > based on where the output is going? I don't know. I suspect that the difference is that in RTAS the conversion is specified (well, as theres only one host, it /is/ specified ;). - Steve
