Need work-around for 'amplitude statistics' bug

Question

Does anyone know how to get adobe audition 3 to report the correct "amplitude statistics" for a selected audio clip?
It is obviously broken now (it worked fine in Cool edit Pro days), to show this simply do this:
create a new file
generate a one second sine wave at 1004 Hz,-6 dB amplitude, no modulation
check the "amplitude statistics" window
The results (for all or any part of the constant sine wave) should read -6 dB for all the catagories (Max, Min, Average, Total). In Audition 3 they typically read other (random?) numbers, however if you select a section of the sine wave near the middle with the selection length the same size as the amplitude statistics window it is sometimes possible to get the correct readings. Just the fact the reading change for various selections in a constant level sine wave shows there is a bug.
Fine.... but does anyone know if there is some way to get a correct reading out of Audition 3 ? Could I turn off some other features, or select the audio section to report the RMS level for in a very particular way?
Thank You.

Answer 1

Here is a really simple example of how adobe Audition 3 is reporting
incorrect values for the amplitude statistics of a selection that
only includes a CONSTANT AMPLITUDE SINE WAVE. Note that for a selection that has only includes a single constant RMS level signal, the reported RMS levels for:
MINIMUM RMS LEVEL
MAXIMUM RMS LEVEL
AVERAGE RMS LEVEL
TOTAL RMS LEVEL
should all be exactly the same (by defination ! ! !)
How to create an example of the incorrect reporting:
1) open Audition 3.0
2) create a new file (for example use mono 16 kHz, 16 bit depth)
3) generate 10 seconds of silence
4) make sure "Preferences-Data-smoothing" are both not checked
5) position cursor at 5 seconds (in middle of silence)
6) generate a sine wave at -6 dB amplitude, 1 second long
7) leave freshly generated sine wave selected
8) open amplitude statistics window
9) select "0 dB = FS sine wave" and default 50ms window width
10)note incorrect statistics reported:
Minimum RMS power -inf dB
Maximum RMS power -6 dB
Average RMS power -8.33 dB
Total RMS power -7.28 dB
At no point in the selection does a window have 50ms of -inf samples
The maximum power is correct
The average power is incorrect, it should also be -6 dB (constant sine wave!)
The total power should also read -6 dB, for a constant -6 dB sine wave
11) now close the amplitude statistics window and select the last 200ms of the
sine wave (from second 5.8 to 6.0)
12) open amplitude statistics windows again (still using 50 ms windows)
13) note the (really) incorrect statistics displayed:
Minimum RMS power -inf dB
Maximum RMS power -inf dB
Average RMS power -inf dB
Total RMS power -inf dB
I assert the Adobe Audition 3 amplitude statistics numbers are obviously wrong. It looks like the calculation is being done over
an incorrect section of some data buffer.