Dear all, sorry to chime in, but I have followed the discussion with some interest. Måns Rullgård wrote: > > [SoX cannot cope with arbitrary floating point files] > Yes, rewriting SoX to use floating-point everywhere > internally would be very nice. Unless you're willing to > put in the effort yourself or pay someone to do it (I > estimate about a month's worth of work, or $10k to $20k), > complaining about it here is a waste of your time. If you > are determined to keep producing invalid files, you could, > with much less effort, write a simple pre-processor to > rescale them as needed. I am using SoX within a tool chain to produce automatic notation videos (https://github.com/prof-spock/LilypondToBandVideoConverter). Since generating audio and the fiddling with the generation parameters is tedious and could be better done interactively in a DAW, I wrote VST3-plugins using the SoX algorithms, but fully reimplemented those in C++ and with double precision arithmetic (https://github.com/prof-spock/SoX-Plugins). In the course of that redesign, I also refactored some of the original code, because sometimes stuff there is duplicated or solved in a non-optimal fashion or grouped in a non-intuitive way. I understand that this does not directly help Peter with his problem. But it means that at least for the effects allpass, band, bandpass, bandreject, bass, biquad, compand, equalizer, gain, highpass, lowpass, mcompand, overdrive, phaser, reverb, treble and tremolo there is a reference floating point implementation available as open-source. And this implementation reproduces the command-line SoX "bit-exactly" (with a residual noise of -150dBFS, as shown in the documentation and the test cases), so you can be sure that command-line processing and floating point VST processing produce almost (!) the same audio. So if somebody volunteered, a step towards a floating-point SoX implementation would be not too complicated... Best regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Sox-users mailing list Sox-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users
