I can't see any useful reason why they should not be fixed to be floats, however 
Csound is configured internally.


Richard Dobson



vanDongen/Gilcher wrote:
> I assume that if csound is using doubles, the spin and spout buffers accessed 
> through the api will also be doubles.
> In that case  there must be an API call to get the size of the internal 
> samples. 
> 
> An argument for using floats is that is much easier to interface csound to 
> various plugin APIs and/or intergrate it with other systems if it uses 
> floats, since that is pretty much the standard and you can use csounds spin 
> and spout directly, which improves latency f.i.
> 
> Gerard
> 
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