Importing multichannel .wav files

[MysticMike]

Hi,
I got a 32 mackie mixer and it records 32 channel wav files. Can I easily import them into Tracktion 6?
Thanks,
Mike

[MysticMike]

I guess it is called a poolyphonic wav file...

[jabe]

You'll be able to import them, but I've no idea what'll happen when you try to play them. I'd guess that Tracktion will take some kind of guess about how to allocate them to the channels that are available to it. There's something on this link (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... s.85).aspx) about some kind of standard that defines 18 output channels, so if you're output device has 32 output channels, I'd say Tracktion would probably deal with it.

[y.witte]

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I guess it is called a poolyphonic wav file...

MysticMike, we could call a sound source "polyphonic" if it has more than one instrument/voice/sound in it: if a mono wav file has a piano, a bass and a trumpet recorded in it, it is still polyphonic, even having one single channel. If you record a singer with 6 microfones all into a wav file with one channel for each mic, that wav would be multichannel but still monophonic. Not exactly related to audio, but if you'd like to read some more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphony)

If you import a multichannel wav into Tracktion it will play only the first two channels of it and ignore the rest. Apparently Tracktion is aware that the wav is a multichannel one (see the extra space in the loop properties), it just doesn't know how to handle it. I've tested it on T7, by the way, but guess it's the same on T6.

You can use Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org/ (http://www.audacityteam.org/)) to split the multichannel into stereo and/or mono files and then import those into Tracktion. I'm not a huge fan of the interface, but it's free, cross platform and good enough for this kind of task.

Y

[TSC]

This is what Mackie recommends you to use: http://www.sounddevices.com/products/ac ... wave-agent

Enjoy

[MysticMike]

I have been using Tracktion for many years. I really love the interface. I am surprised that Mackie creates a file that tracktion can't read without a translator product.

Thanks for the help

[klangbastler]

mackie is no longer affiliated with tracktion. these are seperate companies since years now.
additionally, a 32 channel multitrack wav-file is a really exotic format, which is equally bad supported in many daws.
many can't even cope with it like tracktion, playing at least the first two channels.
they will just refuse to open it.

for these kinds of formats, you need a translator in most cases.

rme has it right, they deliver one themselves for the global record function (edit: part of the free rme digicheck software) of their interfaces.