Re: [fluid-dev] Adding 8bit support.

[Carlo Bramini]

I see.

Perhaps it may be useful for the file renderer, giving the chance to use 16bits 
or 8bits may be good to reduce the amount of data written on the disk and its 
latency.

Sincerely.


> Il 5 novembre 2018 alle 15.22 "Tom M." <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> 
> I guess that fluid_synth_write_s16() was introduced because it was
> needed by an audio driver that was not able to cope with floats. Not
> absolutely sure, fluid_synth_write_s16() is older than Initial Commit.
> 
> If we add fluid_synth_write_u8() it should be required by some audio
> driver as well. If not, it would be good to see more people requiring
> 8bit support. I personally don't think it's common or useful enough to
> be added to fluidsynth nowadays. And also because converting from
> s16 to u8 it pretty straight forward for an application, I don't think
> it's likely to be added, sry.
> 
> Tom
> 
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