Dante AVB and 32-bit Processing

Cubase
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Hi. Do any Steinberg code developers frequent this board? I have a fairly technical question.

There is an emerging “audio over Ethernet” interface standard called AVB / Dante. Audio is transported in AVB as 32-bit fixed (integer) PCM data.

1.) Can Cubase accept and process native 32-bit fixed PCM data? Or will 32-bit fixed data be truncated to 24-bits before internal processing?

2.) Can Cubase save in a true 32-bit integer file format? If yes, which formats?

Thanks so much!
driz

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Can’t answer the first question, but the answer to the second is no. Wave, Wave 64, AIFF, and AIFC can be saved as 32-bit floating, not integer.

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“Wave, Wave 64, AIFF, and AIFC can be saved as 32-bit floating, not integer.”

Are you certain? I’m pretty sure WAV files can be saved as both 32-bit integer and float. I think that’s part of the WAV and WAV64 spec. The question would be if Cubase supports these 32-bit fixed point file specs.

Another question: does Cubase do its math in 32-bit or 64-bit float?