Reason Not recognizing a .wav file

[Nerveclinic]

I am dropping a .wav file into a song like I've done many times and suddenly I get error message from Reason that it is not a recognized file. File ends in .wav, the file plays fine in iTunes. When I click "get info" it says it's a .wav file.

Any idea what the issue is?

[Magnus]

I am dropping a .wav file into a song like I've done many times and suddenly I get error message from Reason that it is not a recognized file. File ends in .wav, the file plays fine in iTunes. When I click "get info" it says it's a .wav file.

Any idea what the issue is?

I've had this happen before, I can always fix it by opening the WAV file in Audacity and exporting it from there as an AIFF file. I find Reason then imports the AIFF version of the file without a problem.

Hope that helps.

[mashers]

Maybe the sample rate isn’t correct for Reason to use it. As Magnus said, import and re-export in Audacity should fix it.

[NekujaK]

There are different types of WAV files, and apparently Reason doesn't read all of them. The sample rate shouldn't matter - Reason is great about working with mixed sample rates on the timeline. The Audacity technique mentioned previously should solve the problem.

[GRIFTY]

currently hitting this issue - imo reason should just work with any audio format you throw at it. I have a giant folder of final fantasy samples I acquired and reason won't read any of them - very annoying to have to export every single one (there's like 500) as AIFF before reason, my sound sampling program, will read any of them

[jam-s]

I think those are most likely 32 bit float wav files which Reason (still) cannot handle. converting to 24bit signed integer should make them loadable.

[joeyluck]

I think those are most likely 32 bit float wav files which Reason (still) cannot handle. converting to 24bit signed integer should make them loadable.

Reason can load 32-bit float, and you can adjust the audio clip level to see the magic, it just can't export 32-bit. Here's some sample files to try: https://www.sounddevices.com/sample-32- ... wav-files/

Poly wav is something Reason won't load. Not sure what else it could be.

[Jackjackdaw]

Did you lift them straight from the game install? They probably have some proprietary info in to stop people robbing them.

[jam-s]

I think those are most likely 32 bit float wav files which Reason (still) cannot handle. converting to 24bit signed integer should make them loadable.

Reason can load 32-bit float, and you can adjust the audio clip level to see the magic, it just can't export 32-bit. Here's some sample files to try: https://www.sounddevices.com/sample-32- ... wav-files/

Poly wav is something Reason won't load. Not sure what else it could be.

When did they add this? (At least they did the usual way of adding features only half-arsed with just the ability to import but skipping the export part. )

[Aquila]

I've downloaded some breakbeat samples before that used the .wav extension but had some form of lossy compression, possibly even just mislabled mp3 files. Sound Forge, VLC, Media Player Classic etc could open and play them but Reason refused to touch them so I had to convert them first.

[plaamook]

I’ve had this w files from a go pro that were either 32 or 48. Something unusual like that. Rx struggled w them too. Only audacity could smoothly read and export em.