[Csnd] DSD

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Hi all.
Is there a method to create high-res PCM and convert it to DSD format in Csound?
Thank you

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Hi Marcelo,
May 31 2024, Marcelo Carneiro de Lima has written:

Hi all.
Is there a method to create high-res PCM and convert it to DSD format in
Csound?

...
If Csound itself doesn't provide support, then it can't. libsndfile,
which does most of the I/O does not support DSD. This is not conclusive,
but at least narrows the solution.

Best wishes,

Jeanette

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Thank you.
Best wishes,
Marcelo

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Csound can produce extremely high resolution soundfiles, .wav or .aif or .flac, anything supported by libsndfile, float or double precision, very high sampling rates, any number of channels.

You can then use https://tascam.com/us/product/hi-res_editor/top to convert pcm files to/from dsd. I think sox may also be able to convert to/from dsd.

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I think I spoke too hastily about sox. A developer contributed such a conversion, but it does not appear to be implemented in my macOS sox command.

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Thanks, I was just curious.
Best wishes
Marcelo

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Nice, thank you very much.
Marcelo