On Aug 30, 2004, at 5:20 AM, Mike Carlyle wrote:
Slide your master volume slider down to about 75 percent. Re-export the file. I went through the same thing and this fixed it.
Understood, but would be a *lot* nicer to have a normalize/clip-check: Pseudo-code (off the top o' me head): set max to 0 for every sample point currently being mixed add all of the samples together in the sample point (e.g. drum1 + cymbal2) store resultant as an unsigned (absolute value) long (>16-bit) integer if resultant is greater than max set max to resultant If max greater than 65535 (16-bits) blare loud horn exclaiming "clipping occurred! clipping occurred!" ask "do you want to normalize your song you sound engineering n00bie?" if yes continue else if no say "then dammit Janet, turn down the master volume slider!" break ..and if you wanted to normalize: for every sample point currently being mixed add all of the samples together in the sample point store resultant as an unsigned long integer (normalized) sample point = resultant * 65535 / max ::Glenn --- I'm listening to "Critical Mass" by Numb from Blood Meridian <http://www.gracenote.com/music/search.html? q=Numb+Blood+Meridian&f=artist&f=disc&x=0&y=0>