I get a lot of distortion when I try to load 24 bit audio files into an array and play it with tabread~, tabplay~, etc. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a limitation of PD or PD on Mac? Is there a way to make it work?

If you send a read message to the [soundfiler] object - assuming you filled your table this way - I believe you can set parameters in the read message to instruct the soundfiler it's a 24 bit soundfile. But I've got no real experience with this since I always convert everything to 16bit 44.1 wave files.

I've never had that problem loading both 24 and 16 bit files. Are they AIF files by any chance?

@saturno said:

I've never had that problem loading both 24 and 16 bit files. Are they AIF files by any chance?

Hmm… I just opened a 24 bit wave and had no problems. Is there any known issues with other formats?

yep… so I just tested it. 24bit wave is fine but 24bit aiff is just noise. Good to know.

its to with big / little endian in the file header. I had that problem when coming from PPC macs to Intel based. I ended up just using wav from then on out......