I just purchased a Sound Devices MixPre-6 II and made a couple of test 2-channel recordings at 32bit float, 96khz. When I drag them both into the file group window, I see an empty waveform with a red overlay and the message “The file cannot be found”. If I try dragging them in individually or open them from the file dialog, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
So I spoke with a tech at Sound Devices and the files their new recorders use is a PolyWav file, which contains multiple tracks encoded into a single wav file. I was actually able to successfully open the file using the import function but the file does not open correctly. Wavelab interprets the four tracks (L, R, and 2 ISO) as a single 2 channel track at 192khz. Is there any way to get PolyWav files on the road map, at least as a file that can be successfully imported? Right now with the import unknown file type there is only the choice of selecting a Mono, or Stereo file. It would be nice if Wavelab could determine how many tracks are embedded and allow the user to choose which to open.
Good to hear that others are interested. Regarding the 2 ISO channels, these are the individual (isolated) channels. The L,R channels are basically a mixdown of all channels being recorded to a stereo pair. Seems redundant if you’re just recording stereo anyway. A workaround for this is to not arm any of the channels you are recording, and that way you just get the ISO channels. Seems counter-intuitive to me, but hey, it works. If I do that, I can open the files in Wavelab.