Cubase audio source file error!

[solsus]

Hey everyone, new to these forums. Was wondering if anyone could offer their expertise.

My band just did a little home recording- multitrack live off the floor (jam session) going through an edirol into cubase sx on my pc. Recording went along fine- we played some of it back at the end of the day and it sounded great. we saved and shut the equipment down as we always do.

The trouble is however, the tail chunk - from the last time we paused the recording to the end is missing. So all the audio streams from that last break are no longer present in the recording, whereas the preceding sections are. Which is strange, because we played it back before we shut everything down and everythign was definitely there.

I opened the file up now and cubase popped up with a prompt telling me all the instruments' audio streams could not be located.

stranger, is the fact that i can clearly see the files in the audio directory with all the wavs. HOWEVER, i can't playback the missing files- windows says it doesnt have the appropriate codecs. I also can't import them into cubase manually! It says :

'error : medium type not supported or invalid medium!"

im reeeally confused here. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I'd immensely appreciate some help or any assistance!

Thanks so much in advance!

-solsus

[TimOBrien]

Can you open the wavs in another program??

Try a simple free audio editor like Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net )

If it will open them up you may be able to save them to a new file that you can then import.

[solsus]

Thanks, TimObrien, I've tried audacity, however, perhaps it's due to the large file sizes ( several hundred mb's each), but the scanning process in which it evaluates the file goes on indefinitely with the time remaining increasing endlessly and the progress bar remaining static.

my computers specs can certainly accomodate such processes, so are there any other programs to try?

[solsus]

Wait- scratch that- I didn't see the 'import raw data' option. Works beautifully! Thanks much!