Can Cool Edit handle a 24 bit sound card? Also Logic Plat question!

[faabud]

I am going to be purhasing a new card. I want a good sound card for recording vocals. As that's mainly all I do. Currently I have the SB live Plat 5.1 which not all that bad. It was good for a beginning stages. But I want a 24bit card. I use Cool Edit to record most of the time. I was just wondering if a 24bit card can be used with Cool Edit to it's full potential. As I am not sure if cool edit can take in 24bit quality. Also I am looking a cheap soundcard, I have the Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro mixer(pre amp), a RNC compressor, a Shure SM58 mic. So will a soundcard make a difference. I already get pretty nice quality. I just want a little more. I am also upgrading my mic to a AKG C3000 in the next month.

Also if Cool Edit does not support 24 bit recording. Should I use Logic Audio? I have it but I cannot really understand it. I have been fiddling around, reading etc for a month and I got it to work to an extent. I want to put a "Beat" wav on one track. Then with the other tracks record as I listen to the beat in my headphones. But when I try to record on another track the original beat just stops playing. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. But the audio is clear and stuff. Anyways thanks....

jsahajpal@interbaun.com

 

[dcwave]

Yes CEP can handle 24bit.
You would select 32bit float for recording. It can also do 192Khz as well. Its only draw back ( but what keeps it stable ) is lack of real time fx.
A nice Sound card that will grow with you over time is the Delta 1010. If this card is outside your price range ( $599 @ Mars ) the other delta cards are fine.

You will notice much improvement in sound quality with a decent converter at 24bit. The SBLive, although a great card in its own right and sounds as good as 1/4 in tape, is too noisy for CD quality multitrack recording ( IMO ). When you start adding several tracks of 16bit audio with a -89db noise floor you start to loose clairity, sparkle, air, etc....

 

[Kaydis]

It should be noted that CEP was reading and writing multiple 24 and 32 bit formats long before Cakewalk, Logic, and many others started handling 24 bit files.