24-bit delay possible?


#1

Would full 24-bit delays (with reduced max time) be possible? If I am correct in thinking the normal delays are 16-bit, then the same memory allocation should give 2/3 the delay time.
I think it would be good for applications where the delay doesn't have to be particularly long but quality is more important (like ensemble effects where I've occasionally noticed quantisation noise).


#2

Not sure about 24, but looking at delay objects' code i think it's perfectly possible to make them into 32-bit.
Since variables are 32bit you'd have to discard a byte per sample, so no practical advantage.


#3

Ah, that's a good point. I was thinking 24 because the converters are 24-bit, but of course the internal sample stream is a 32-bit fractional, right? So yeah, what I was asking for was full depth delay, I just forgot what the internal bit depth was.


#5

Check in the community library jho/delay , looks like he already modded such objects