Dear list,
is there any specific reason why dbtorms and friends do not take dB values <=0 as input?
From my point of view (and that of most people I know), an object called dbtorms should do a dB to RMS conversion, e.g. convert -20 to 0.000001 in pd and not silently output zero as it does right now. Both pd internally and high-quality audio cards can do sensible things with numbers this low.
Kind of reminds one of the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) bug http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/RemoteSensingAtmospher/remote_sens... which is frequently ranked among the top 10 historical software bugs with extreme consequences: It made NASA unaware of the antarctic hole in the ozone layer for years simply because the analysis software ignored ozone values below a certain threshold...
So please pd developers, change this or give a good reason for not taking lessons from history.
Best whishes, Matthias