On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Paul Stephenson wrote: > 20*log(2^32) = ~192dB of headroom for 32 bits. Pretty high and why > you > probably won't ever hit in the individual tracks. It's actually better than that. The 32 bit floats have a dynamic range of something over 1500dB; it's 24 bits of mantissa and eight bits of exponent, which means 256 bits of dynamic range (though "only" 24 bits of precision.) Put another way, you still have over 750dB of headroom when your channel is indicating 0dB, and an individual channel can be at -750dB at full precision (though the mix bus will bring this back to reality.) You're not going to clip anything prior to the outputs... ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details