Core Audio Internal Compression?

[Michael Zacherl]

On 5.7.2012, at 20:25 , Jay Vaughan wrote:

>> What do you know about it, any pointers/evidence that that's the case or not?
> 
> Go to your audio settings in Audio/Midi setup.  Notice you can switch between 24-bit and 32-bit audio output formats?  In the former case, there is a noticable compression going on to avoid digital clipping and distortion.  In the 32-bit case, not so much.

nah ... not here:

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could you elaborate, PLS?

is it 32bit INT? Or is it the internal 32bit float stream you're switching to?

I'd love to have a simple OS X App which shows the digital level (also in absolute numbers!) of the signal being on the internal busses.

m.

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