What the hell does this do?

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"Interpret 32 bit PCM .wav files as 16.8 float (compatibility with old Adobe Audition)"

It's in the DATA tab of Settings.

first of all, the last part of the statement is funny, b/c there IS no "old Adobe Audition," and I know that this statement used to say "compatibility with old CoolEdit," which tells me that the folks at Adobe used a "seek/change" feature to change the word "cooledit" to "adobe audition," and this is one of the spots where it's just funny.

BUT BACK TO MY QUESTION...The default is for it to be checked, but I'm confused as to whether it should be or not. When it's checked, and I bring a 32 bit file into edit view, it shows it as a 16bit file, which is just bloody confusing.

Does anybody care about this but me? lol.
 
"Does anybody care about this but me?"

Nope LOL.

Sounds to me like a leftover from 1.2 or something when 16-bit was more of an issue and when people needed backwards compatibility with stuff that had been done in 16.8 floating point. But both you and I have been doing stuff in 32-bit floating point since we started, right? So I don't think that setting applies, right. Deselect, deselect, deselect.

'old Adobe Audition'

I love that.

"Yup. Got out the old Adobe Audition last night and fired her up. Beauty."
 
I CARE!

This confuses me to.

When saveing wave files (Save as>Options tab), they are automatically saved as 32 bit, 16.8 float, although Adobe says "default" is 32 bit Normalized float (Type 3). My old Cool Edit 2000 saved the same way. ALSO, my version of Adobe reads "keep this checked to be compatible with old Cool Edit format" . What's confuses me more, is when saving as 32 bit, 16.8 float, it says "obsolete/compatabilty" besides it. What exactly do they mean?

Back to the original post...
If this is the format you save wave files as, then I imagine you leave the box in the data tab checked. Adobe Audition and Cool edit seemed to set this as the deafult. I've always left that box checked, someone please let me know if this is wrong.

Furthermore, when I bring a file in edit view, it always says 32 bit.
Check in the Multitrack tab, under settings. make sure Mixdown, Track Record, and Pre-Mixing are all set to 32 bit.

werewolf
 
I'm pretty sure that this box only needs to be checked if you are saving files that will later need to be opened in the older version of Cool Edit Pro, which was not 32 bit.

Cool Edit Pro 1.2a or what ever it was up to before they came out with CEP 2
 
Is there any harm or detectable quality loss in leaving it checked?
 
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