hi Richard,
thank you! You are right, it is better to conform, and to choose the 18-bit way in writing. Checked Samplitude and WaveLab -- both properly load 18-bit. But upon storing, Samplitude always uses 16-bit, even if the file was originally 18-bit. WaveLab does not save float files anyway. And no matter if 16-bit, or 18-bit, ProTools is always happy to report: ``This file is unreadable by ProTools''.
Krzysztof
Richard Dobson wrote: ...
More to the point, most commercial applications bend over backwards to open a file if they can - I have had files with known errors in the