huber@iamexwi.unibe.ch (Thomas Huber) wrote, in part:

> You are right, it sounds like I would be 'listening to it on my
> favorite college station...'. So 'dam' produces extreme noise, it a total
> catastrophe. 

Just so that we're all clear on the subject, the point I (obviously) failed to
make in my last post is that I may have been trying to use the dam opcode
improperly.

As I understand the opcode, I can have my signal compress (or expand) at one
ratio below the threshold, and compress/expand at a second ratio above that
threshold. I haven't done enough work with the opcode to determine whether it
will produce that level of noise no matter what settings I use. Thomas, should
I infer that from your post...?

And for that matter I probably haven't put the sweat equity into Cool Edit to
get the best results there, either. As I recall, I had originally sampled my
individual tracks at 32 bits (OK, really 24-bit plus mantissa). But when I had
CSound read the 32-bit samples, I discovered that, for example, the vocals
sounded kinda-sorta like the distortion Beck got shouting "Two turntables and
a microphone" into a stomp box-- without any of the musicality. I wound up
converting to 16-bit, and that may have introduced some noise and/or aliasing,
because my hi-fi audio suddenly sounded a little less hi ~and~ a little less
fi.... Bottom line is, I'm still not ready to unleash any of my CSound on the
world....

Back to the drawing board,

Rick

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