Since you raise the poiint, a quick plug: the CDP system also supports
floating-point files, in both WAV and AIFF, including (PC only) utility
programs for recording and playback. There will be new information about
this shortly, on our website:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~masjpf/CDP/CDP.htm

One aspect of 24/32bit files is that those who are really concerned
about the ultimate audio quality will want their final files dithered
down to 16/20 bits or whichever. I have found one freeware dither
application on the net, but it does not(yet?) know about Type 3 floatsam
files, only 24bit PCM. Does anyone have a dither or noise-shaping
algorithm they fancy donating to Csound?

I suppose this might involve adding yet another flag to the Csound
commandline - but just think of the possibilites if Csound adopts
Unicode!

Richard Dobson 


Michael Gogins wrote:

> Float WAV soundfiles are a Microsoft
> standard and can be played by Cool Edit Pro, and perhaps other software.
> 
> I highly recommend doing all Csound work with float soundfiles until the
> very last step, mastering. Particularly if you do any mixing or remixing of
> soundfiles, you will find the sound significantly better this way.