Charles Baker wrote:

> Why the heck isn't there *more* emphasis on floating point in musical
> signal processing ? Makes all the difference

Of course it doesn't necessarily have to be floating point. I'd guess
a large part of the reason why floating point stuff is better is
because it uses more bits - typically 32/64/80 (in think they're
the standards). If you used 32 bit ints the quality would improve
by a similar amount to your standard C floats, although there would
be subtleties lost in quieter audio compared to using a float due to
the "logarithmic" nature of floating point. But the 16-24-32 bit
transition within the integer realm is very significant, and on
some processors integer performance is superior.

Bye!