XMA is processed by the south bridge into standard PCM format in RAM.

A SoundFont bank contains base samples in PCM format (similar to WAV files) that are mapped to sections on a musical keyboard.

It could open and save audio in 8-bit or 16-bit uncompressed PCM format (.

Buffers contain audio data in PCM format, either 8- or 16-bit, in either monaural or stereo format.

SACD uses Direct Stream Digital, which works quite differently from the PCM format discussed in this article.

The decoded samples will be in host-endian standard interleaved PCM format, i.e. left 16bit, right 16bit, left, right, etc.

These lossless formats can be transcoded to PCM formats or transcoded directly from one lossless format to another lossless format, without any loss in quality.

Another format for DSD editing is DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition), a PCM format with 24-bit resolution sampled at 352.8 kHz.

Oversampling converters are frequently used in linear PCM formats, where the ADC output is subject to bandlimiting and dithering (Hawksford 1995).

Dialogue and certain ambient effects also used the PCM format.