Problem with playback in Audition CC

Question

Hello everyone,
im new here and work with Audition CC at the moment..
now i went into an error or problem that i dont know how to solve.
Simple as that i have a laptop with a Realtek HD Audio Soundcard and want to play many clips in a multitrack in Audition..
the thing is, it seems that Audition does not have a problem playing back the whole audio track or bigger parts of it..
But when i cut the clip into smaller clips and paste them each after one then Audition seems to have playback crackle problems..
It could be that the latency is not accurate or the bits of the soundcard (currently at 24bit, 48kHz) are not correct..
I dont know what to do exactly?!
I tried many things but it didnt come to a conclusion yet..
this is how the multitrack looks like atm:
The bigger parts could be played back by Audition, the smaller ones NOT!
this is how the preferences look like atm:
Can you help me??
Thanks in advance,
MiqJaqqer

Answer 1

MiqJaqqer wrote:
4 questions:
1. can i convert a whole multitrack session to 32bit after working with it is done??
or is there a driver or sth that supports 32bit for my soundcard?? (im no expert on this area..)
2. is 24bit so much worse than 32bit?? does it sound differently?
3. how can i solve it that if i exit Audition without saving any track sometimes doesnt save the standard settings i made before like standard view (bars & beats) or last imported files are all gone! or new multitrack session preferences??? thats soo bad if i have to make the settings all again
4. can i drag & drop a mp3-file into Audition instead of pressing the Open.. button??
1 & 2. Generally, unless you've set them otherwise, multitrack sessions will be in 32-bit Floating Point anyway - it's the internal working format. It's the Floating Point bit that's different - this isn't an integer format like 24-bit at all. It is like 24-bit - that's it's basic bit depth, but it goes further than that; the other bits are scaling and sign bits, and it's these that make it far more flexible in production - you virtually can't overload the format, neither can you shrink signals so small that they can't be fully recovered; it's clever! Unfortunately sound devices can't cope with this though, and if you present a massive 32-bit signal to them, then they will overload their outputs and sound dreadful. So, the driver in your sound device interprets the 32-bit signals correctly, converts them to 24 bit internally, because that's how real world signals fed to an A-D converter have to be. It's up to you to get it right. Other than that, there's absolutely no sound difference at all.
So in production terms, the big advantage of Floating Point signals is that you don't get the loss you'd get from shrinking integer signals too small, and saving them as such, when you'd lose the bit depth for ever.
3. You have to save your desktop layout as a separate preset, and then you should be able to recall it with all of its settings. If all of your settings are disappearing though, then it's possible that the .xml file that they are being written to is being deleted by something like a system protection system, and then you'll be back to a vanilla system when Audition can't find them (the vanilla files get restored automatically).
4. I think you can drag and drop MP3 files, yes. They will automatically get converted into whatever the session format is though - Audition can't handle them directly in that format at all.
HTH