[Openal] Low gain and Clipping

[Chris Robinson]

On Friday, September 03, 2010 4:52:06 am Fruskus wrote:
> My vocoder is working ok, but I have the next issue:
> The gain is so low I need to turn my speakers up to the max just for
> average volume.
> I've tried to set source gain to 2.0 but clipping appears. It also happens
> if I multiply by 1.5, or something like that, the buffer which contains the
> samples. And as long as it's a "real time" application, I can't normalize
> the samples.

Hi.

That's odd. Setting the source volume to 2.0 should still clamp it to 1.0 
because of AL_MAX_GAIN (which can't go above 1.0). If the sound is mono, make 
sure you set source's AL_SOURCE_RELATIVE property to true, and set the 
position to {0, 0, 0}, to prevent distance attenuation. Otherwise, make sure 
the sound itself isn't too quiet.

If that doesn't help, what OS and OpenAL version are you using?