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It worked quite well with the snd format. <div><br><div>Just in case you would like to poke around with our easy to use N-Channel N-Speaker Vektor-based-panning Sound-Dome software, running on OSX, its public domain and open source soon:</div><div><a href="http://www.zkm.de/zirkonium">http://www.zkm.de/zirkonium</a></div><div><br></div><div>Ludger</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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If I remember correctly, they have a 32 bit limit<br>on the data size, which sounds like 8 minutes at 44100 36 chans --<br>(/ (expt 2 32) (* 44100 60 36 4)) is about 10?<br><br>In "snd" (i.e. NeXT) files, the file size field should be ignored if it is<br>wrong, and in "riff" (wav) files, Snd should automatically move to<br>using the new extended format -- I forget the acronym. Apple<br>introduced the "caf" format partly to get around the aifc limitation.<br><br>In any case, 36 chans at 44Khz for say 36 minutes looks like<br>13 GBytes -- I just wrote such a file, but now I'm muttering about<br>Snd which is taking forever to display it.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Cmdist mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cmdist@ccrma.stanford.edu">Cmdist@ccrma.stanford.edu</a><br>http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>