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06-12-2004, 05:21 PM

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mixed bit depths

I notice that pro tools can now play back AIF and WAV files natively in the same session. Cool.

Why is it then that files must be converted from 16bit to import into a 24 bit session. Surely if the CPU can swap the bytes around between big-endian/AIF and little-endian/WAV then it can also add 8 binary zeros to the end of each sample to playback 16bit files in a 24 bit session?

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