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gwailo wrote on 9/5/2009, 6:12 AM
9.0b seems to be converting everything to 32bit floating point when it opens a take in sound forge.

Is your error coming from Vegas or Sound forge?
chuck_et wrote on 9/6/2009, 3:31 PM
I'm thinking that it's coming from soundforge. While in Vegas, I right click on the audio track and select "open copy in soundforge". Soundforge then opens up and I get the error message.
pwppch wrote on 9/6/2009, 7:19 PM
Please fill out your system specs and mark them as visible in your system profile.

Peter
gwailo wrote on 9/7/2009, 1:50 PM
If you have the full version of Sound Forge (not Sound Forge studio) it should play.

Most likely your soundcard is the problem. It doesn't want to play 32 bit float files.

9.0b forces everything to open as 32 bit floating point now in Sound Forge.

I don't know why this change was made, and it certainly wasn't advertised in the release notes.
ChristoC wrote on 9/7/2009, 2:56 PM
VegasPro9b opens files fine in SoundForge9 or SoundForgePro10, and they play fine in either application here; however the 24bit files are definitely converted to 32bit (IEEE float) which I don't understand - for sure this is inconvenient, as user has to remember to save as 24bit should the processed files subsequently be needed in applications which do not support 32bit.
chuck_et wrote on 9/8/2009, 4:40 PM
I believe I have furnished all info and made it visible. Can you assist in this problem -
gwailo wrote on 9/12/2009, 11:10 PM
I'd suggest buying a better soundcard. Either 1) your motherboard soundcard doesn't like having both Vegas and Sound Forge open at the same time. Or 2) the soundcard doesn't support playing 32bit files.

1) Check to see that you have the option in Vegas preferences selected for "Close all media files when application loses focus"

If that is selected, then it's a problem with your audio card.

2) Echo Audio products seem to work very well with Vegas / Sound forge.

www.echoaudio.com

I've sent in a support ticket about being forced to open files as 32 bit float. Apparently they are working on a solution to fix this.

There may also be a possible workaround for you. Typically the error you say is coming up will display only when you try to play the file in sound forge.

If it lets you open the file, you could select -> process -> bit depth converter - then change the bit depth back to 16 bit - then you can probably play the file.
ChristoC wrote on 9/13/2009, 12:40 AM
> I've sent in a support ticket about being forced to open files as 32 bit float. Apparently they are working on a solution to fix this.

I also reported same (I have no problem playing 32bit, it's just inconvenient & makes no sense); response I received from support was this is perfectly normal!!

Obviously Support are confused.
As the problem is introduced in VegasPro9, it must be a bug....
gwailo wrote on 10/13/2009, 3:09 PM
it was introduced with 9.0b

9.0 and 9.0a did not force files into 32bit float