Hi all,

I was just thinking about the fact that Csound (or any other sound
synthesis language) can blow up suddenly if a filter becomes unstable,
or if you have a typo in your value for amplitude, so it occured to me
a good "mantra" to avoid problems is "software levels up, hardware
levels down", to make sure that even if things blow up, they won't be
significantly louder to what you are listening already, minimizing
harm to ears and speakers.

I think that's an easy and practical way to minimize problems.

Cheers,
Andres


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As far as I'm concerned when I'm testing new things, I always render to 
file and do a quick check on the amp levels before listening anything. A 
painful tinnitus a few years ago taught me to be careful with that...

On 10/6/11 11:06 AM, Andres Cabrera wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just thinking about the fact that Csound (or any other sound
> synthesis language) can blow up suddenly if a filter becomes unstable,
> or if you have a typo in your value for amplitude, so it occured to me
> a good "mantra" to avoid problems is "software levels up, hardware
> levels down", to make sure that even if things blow up, they won't be
> significantly louder to what you are listening already, minimizing
> harm to ears and speakers.
>
> I think that's an easy and practical way to minimize problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Andres
>
>
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>



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We should print that all over the manual! I find students running
instruments with low level who turn all the hardware up. I see kicking
in class whenever a loud sound comes through the phones. It's as if
someone is randomly sending electric shocks from a control room! It
looks kind of funny but obviously there is nothing funny about
damaging ones ears.

On 6 October 2011 10:06, Andres Cabrera  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just thinking about the fact that Csound (or any other sound
> synthesis language) can blow up suddenly if a filter becomes unstable,
> or if you have a typo in your value for amplitude, so it occured to me
> a good "mantra" to avoid problems is "software levels up, hardware
> levels down", to make sure that even if things blow up, they won't be
> significantly louder to what you are listening already, minimizing
> harm to ears and speakers.
>
> I think that's an easy and practical way to minimize problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Andres
>
>
> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
>            https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
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>
>


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