On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 05:42:11PM +0200, David Pickett wrote:

> Incidentally, one of the drawbacks of multichannel wavfiles for HOA is their
> large size for any reasonable length of musical composition. At 48kHz, a
> 9-channel 2nd order file takes c. 74MB for 1 minute of music. Alternatively,
> 1GB lasts about 13.5 minutes in 2nd order or about 30.4 mins in 1st order.

This is one of the reasons why the CAF file format was chosen for Ambix. 
It doesn't have the 32-bit file size limit of most other formats (all
size fields are 64-bit).

Ciao,

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FA

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