Ableton cannot import audio rendered by Cubase

[hhuang9611]

So I was following a tutorial on Psy Trance and the tutor allows the download of all the audio samples and rendered(bounced) audio. The tutor uses Cubase while I am on Ableton

When I tried to use any bounced audio, the audio appears to be heavily clipped in Ableton (the waveform is just a big block of black), but all other audio samples(not rendered by the tutor) are fine. Even more strangely, I can normally palyback those bounced ones with Windows media player.

I don’t know if it matters but I am using Windows but the tutor is with MAC.

Anybody has any idea what’s going on?

[Deep Purple]

Could be that the tutorial uses heavily compression on everything, so what you’re seeing is all the dynamics removed to make the files as loud as possible.

[BertKoor]

Technically wav pcm can be stored in 32bit floating point. So then it can have overs without pain.

You should zoom in at sample level to have a peek at what really is up.

[pottering]

That can happen when you load a WAV with the wrong format (bit depth, endian, that stuff).

Could be simply user error, like a MP3 with the wrong file extension
[EDIT: Actually, nope. Live gives an error when I try doing that on purpose].

Check the WAV in Audacity, maybe even Windows media player will tell which format the file really is.

[hhuang9611]

Thanks for theadvice guys... But I am still having the problem. Here are some screen shots of the same sample displayed both in Live and Audacity. Hopefully it can help clarify the problem a little bit

[hhuang9611]

Another thing to add... I just send the file to my friend and asked him to load into reason 10. It said not supported format... Very very interesting

[mgw38]

That happens when Ableton tries to read a wav file in a format it does not fully support. I had that happen a few times. I think in my case it was a 32 bit integer pcm that caused this behavior. Use Audacity to export the files into a safe format before loading them into Ableton.