Importing Recording from Waves Tracks Live into DP

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Importing Recording from Waves Tracks Live into DP

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Hi.......
I'll be mixing a project in DP9 that was recorded in Tracks Live. I've never worked with Tracks Live—what will I get from that app? What should I ask for, in order to get it into DP?
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Re: Importing Recording from Waves Tracks Live into DP

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Rick Cornish wrote:Hi.......
I'll be mixing a project in DP9 that was recorded in Tracks Live. I've never worked with Tracks Live—what will I get from that app? What should I ask for, in order to get it into DP?
Request BFW if you can, which the latest Live supports. That will bring along some meta-data (such as starting position) that may be useful.

Otherwise you'll just get normal wave files, which you can drag&drop or import directly to DP as usual.
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Re: Importing Recording from Waves Tracks Live into DP

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Robert Randolph wrote:Request BFW if you can, which the latest Live supports. That will bring along some meta-data (such as starting position) that may be useful.

Otherwise you'll just get normal wave files, which you can drag&drop or import directly to DP as usual.
Thanks, Robert. What is "BFW?"

[edited] N/M, Robert. BWF = "Broadcast Wave Format", which sounds like a basic WAV file with a few extension chunks.
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Re: Importing Recording from Waves Tracks Live into DP

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Yeah, I mistyped. BWF is what I meant, sorry.

(I just typed BFW like 10 times in a row trying to write BWF above... :banghead: )
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