When I transfer a WAV into MM MX Premium it doesn't play and original WAV is destroyed?

kjs1968 wrote on 9/9/2012, 3:47 AM

I tried dragging and dropping a WAV file in MMM, when I dropped it in, there was a long delay and file that is sitting in MMM clicks when I play it. I delete that file and in my file where i dragged the WAV from, a MAGIX sound file is created and the original WAV file no longer plays and the MAGIX sound file is all messed up too, there is audio but it is all hissy. Any suggestions? I have lost two original works thanks to this problem.

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johnebaker wrote on 9/9/2012, 6:49 AM

When you say drag and drop are you doing this within MMM media manager or dragging from a Windows Explorer window into MMM?

When you are deleting the file is it the one on the timeline, in media manager or in a Windows Explorer window.?

What is the source of the wav file?

Try resetting MMM to its defaults by using Windows Explorer with MMM closed, search for and delete the largest musicmaker.ini file you can find - search hidden folders as well - its file size will be greater than 1kb ( you can leave the 1kb ones as they are not the one you want to delete)

HTH

John

wormdrink wrote on 9/9/2012, 12:23 PM

i haven't had any .wav files disappear, what happens is that when i open windows to retrieve it again, i have to instruct windows to show me all files in my MMM folder. drop down the menu below the line that asks you what you want to open. that line usually defaults to seeing MMM files. set it to show all files. you'll have to move the .original wav into your MMX folder manually. none of those .wav files were degraded in any way though

you may have tried any or all of the following:

... you may have an improper setting in your .wav recorder. try setting it to default, and see what happens, or change the midi device settings, you may be running the wrong card.

...double check your windows sound settings, you might have set the midi/wav levels to low (makes them sound thin and tinny).

...did you clean the track your .wav is playing on before you dropped it on? i've had artifacts appear in tracks when i forgot to do this, it will affect the final sound.

...if it sounds like the tracks are out of sync, use the bar and beat recognition feature under the remix function to adjust the sync markers on the .wav file. if you have to, zoom in on the object containing the .wav, and manually adjust the position of the object to sync it to the score.

just a couple of things that i found out. hope one of them helps, if not then my apologies.

other than those ideas i don't know what else to recommend,

CBY_TLSE wrote on 9/11/2012, 4:05 AM

Hi,

When you import a Wav file, MMM creates 2 associated files *.H0 and *.HDP. Try to delete this 2 associated files, they will be created again when you use you Wav file.

Regards

kjs1968 wrote on 1/26/2013, 8:45 PM

I have identified the problem. MMM doesn't work well with .wav files on my setup. I know wav is an older format, but for MMM to completly destroy the file, totally sucks. Im just sayin....