[Stk] Rawwave files... what are they?

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Gary Scavone <gary at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Most of the rawwave files used in STK are in fact wave tables (that is, a single period of a periodic waveform) or impulse responses.  They are used in various synthesis classes, especially the FM classes.  The Mandolin class uses a bunch of the impulse responses to simulate direction dependent sound radiation.  As an STK user, there is likely no reason you would ever want to create your own rawwave files.  In fact, we probably should convert all the rawwave files to a standard “headered" format (WAV or AIF), as we are no longer as concerned with memory limitations as we were in the 1990s.

Or even dispose of the files entirely and store as C arrays of doubles
(or floats)?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler