32 Bit FP Audio Files Delivered To Me; How Do You Deal With Them?

[Todd R]

Oh boy, I do recall the history of such conversations on the old SAW Forum, so I realize I might be hitting a beehive with a a baseball bat. Maybe those old conversations had nothing to do with this.

Anyone here dealing with 32 Bit Floating Point wav files and maybe provide how you deal with them? I usually use DaVinci Resolve for conversions...as of now I don't even know if Resolve supports the format. I know that the SAWStudio64 Soundfile View will play them back; but the the MultiTrack window sounds like a bomb went off.

[Bob L]

The current versions should play them.... if the soundfile view plays them, they should also play fine in the MT.

Send me a short piece of one of the files... a few secs worth and let me test here.

Bob L

[jmh]

If wind up having to convert them, and you have access to a linux or mac machine, you can use sox http://sox.sourceforge.net/Docs/Documentation to do it. (There is a cigwin installer for windows too. I have no idea if it is a simple binary - or something more complicated to get going. There is also a linux environment that you can activate from within windows where sox may install).

[Danny O]

Audacity should be able to do it to...great program....free!

[Todd R]

Thanks everybody :-)

I used Resolve, which worked fine...it's part of my workflow

Bob, how would I send you any files? A link in a forum post to an online portal I suppose :-)

Anyway, I didn't dive too deep trying to play them in SAW...I'll have another go early next week

[Todd R]

The current versions should play them.... if the soundfile view plays them, they should also play fine in the MT.

Send me a short piece of one of the files... a few secs worth and let me test here.

Bob L

Hi Bob,
looks like I am wrong; I have now 32bitFP regions playing back just fine in a 4824 MultiTrack session SS64 :-)
Alongside 4824 regions

[MMP]

I have had problems with soft edges and 32bit float files. I always convert them.

[Todd R]

I have noticed some behaviour that I don't typically have when not using 32bitFP files
automation not writing; for example when pressing F to write a fade
I seldom if ever have that issue. A reboot fixed it

another thing that might be affecting my jobs might be Sonnox Restore DeBuzzer I've been using on some jobs
and I had never used the 64bit version before last week.
Maybe the ilok is throwing some issues. I haven't used the ilok in about 3 years.

Reboot of SS64 fixed my issues, so I didn't worry about it too much