RE: audio engine for project 5-V2.5 16 or 32 bit?
2008/10/13 03:02:35
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P5 supports 16-bit and 24-bit audio so it is certainly not a 16-bit engine. I don't think any modern audio programs are 16-bit internal. Intel computers and compilers have natively supported 32-bit math as the default for many, many years.
I suspect this is either a confusion about the audio format support (16/24 bits in the input/output samples themselves) or they are thinking 32-bit vs. 64-bit in the audio engine. Some tools like Sonar have been re-written to use 64-bit floating point in their audio engines (this is different than the software being 64-bit integer, as in Vista 64-bit; 64-bit floating point has also been available on Intel for years).
Anyway, I don't think that P5 has a 64-bit engine, otherwise they would advertise it that way. I'd guess that the internals are 32-bit integer but I couldn't find any confirmation of this. I'm sure some of the users on this forum know these details exactly.