Corrupt Tracks
2005-08-17 by Josh
I recorded a long practice session last night with my bands. 12 tracks at 24 bit/44.1 Khz. Got home and opened the song off of the portable FW HD on my desktop and it gave me errors like "what kind of file is this", "8 bit files cannot be used", etc... The file is the exact same size as all the other files that were recorded. I researched and found out about using audacity to import the raw audio data to be later exported to whatever format, but no matter what input paramaters I chose (16/24/32 bit PCM/float/dwvw big/little/no-endian) the imported audio was unusable. Extreme static and distortion, and the little audio you can hear in the background is sped up it seems. Why is this happening? How can I recover my track? Is there some other software/platform besides logic/osx that would be more reliable? I'm sick of random crashes and corruption which IMO is a hallmark of working with Apple software. My PC rarely ever crashes. Setup: I use Logic 6.4.3 and OS 10.3.9 on 2 different machines. One is a PB400 the other is a G4 DP1.25. Both have a gig of ram. I also use the Waves V4 diamond plugins extensively. I have a MOTU 828 and run a digimax LT into it's optical in. Mostly I just record bands... around 12 tracks simultaneously at 24 bit. I use a LaCie firewire HD with my PB to do this on location (the built in HD is too sensitive to vibration). I then load the song up at home on my DP1.25Ghz G4 for mixing and overdubs.