Randy Yates wrote:
I could be wrong, but I thought the internal format was
floating-point.

"François Yves Le Gal" wrote ...
Yep, it's 32-bit floating point.

According to their help file...
"32-bit 16.8 float (type 1 - 32-bit)"
"This is Cool Edit Pro's internal format. Floating point
values are in the range of +/- 32768.0, but larger and
smaller values are valid and not clipped since the floating
point exponent is saved as well. The .wav BitsPerSample
fileld is set to 32 and BlockAlign is set to 4 bites per
channel."

Note that +/- 32768 is 16-bit signed integer. Same as
standard 16-bit fixed-point wav files. So they appear
to accomodate "floating point" input and output protocol
while processing only the actual 16-bits of data.