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anonymous 13 November 2002

Just wanted to tell you about the banter of messages at the Cakewalk/Sonar users forum that your following quote created.

"You need to take the final mix and and master it. what you are listening
to is just your mix and due to your ability to boost the volume on your
speakers you can get a decent listening level...also because Sonar is not a
Floating point math scheme you can not push the level that high. That's what
Steinberg rules! They have a floating point integer system and not a fixed
point like Sonar!"
Opus
responses:

Opus is wrong. CWPA 9 was floating point - perhaps even earlier. SONAR
is the evolution of the same audio engine.

The first is false. Our mix engine has been 100% 32-bit floats since
Cakewalk Pro Audio 7.
Ron Kuper/Cakewalk

"Floating-point integer system"? Huh? There ain't no such thing. That would
be like having a square circle or a basement penthouse. Sounds like
somebody is talking out of their ass. Write that person off as a
BSter.

Pete

OPUS, what the heck is going on here?

ps none of this is meant to offend...
I just ask a lot of questions...that's how I got so smart...LOL

Poly ;)

Comments

Doublehelix Wed, 11/13/2002 - 12:56

Opus makes mistakes??? Whoa!

Polymod, if you don't know it yet, Opus is an amazingly competent and intelligent DAW expert! If he made a mistake here, it is one of the first I have ever seen in the time I have known him. The person who posted that he should be "written off as a BS'er" should be ignored. Opus goes out of his way to help everyone, and rarely makes a mistake.

I would stake my music on his opinions, and you should too! Just remember that he is human just like the rest of us, and can make a small error. Everything he said in the post is correct, except for that Sonar *does* perform floating point calculations.

He has been known to be a bit of snob when it comes to Sonar however!!! ;) (I happen to be a Steinberg fan as well, however, so I rarely get offended!)

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