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Originally Posted by nutekk
hey the powercore can do 32/96 from what i understand.
maybe this is a viable option for those wanting to use
the totally unuseful higher sampling rates.
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The powercore plugins CAN do 96kHz but they do not do 32 bit resolution.
warning: heavy tech babble and personal meaning ahead
Actually, nothing that is using VST does work in 32 bits.
VST works with audio data coded in 32 bit floats. The standard describes the audio signal as in a range from 1.0f to -1.0f.
The (single precision) "float" datatype is a 32bit construct with a 1bit sign, 8 bit exponent and a 23 bit mantissa ( or fraction).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_fl...point_standard
Because the exponent is always 1 (-1.0 to 1.0) you have left 24 bits to express your "level" (23 bit fraction/1bit sign). Therefore you do not have actually any advantage, in terms of "bit depth", in float DSPs (like i.e. the shark DSP) vs. 24bit DSPs (like the motorola ones).
I have to admit that this is not totally true since a
there are values where the fraction is the same and the exponent shifts, but the precision gain in this is less than audible at all and also not guaranteed for all possible values within the range [-1,1].
Of course this is source of a lot of philosophical discussions, meanings and even flamewars, which I don't want either to bring up nor take part of.
tk
-this post is of course not an official statement of access music gmbh-