Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:34:59AM -0500, Andres Cabrera wrote:
Maybe it's denormal problems? You can try adding a noise generator set
to a very low level before the plugin, and see if this fixes it.
But I would think the tap plugins were denormal safe...
That was my first idea as well, since the problems seemed to start
shortly after the input became silence. So I downloaded and checked
the sources. The biquad filter contains explicit denormal-killing code...
That FLUSH_TO_ZERO macro doesn't always work though:
http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2003-August/004581.html
Unfortunately the "fix" I suggest at the bottom of that mail doesn't always
work either (it turns out that casting to volatile doesn't do what you might
hope that it would) hence this alternative:
http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2004-June/008739.html
~ Simon Jenkins
