Wav file won't load

What is the size of these WAV files on disc? If you browse to them using Windows Explorer and then right click and choose properties, how big are they?

+1 to what Dave wrote. If you get dots on the track it means the files are further down the timeline.
You need to check (or uncheck :o) "Import Broadcast wav at their timestamp".

It does sound like a broadcast wav to me.
 
Look in Preferences - File - Audio Data and ucheck "Always Import Broadcast Waves At Their Timestamp" and see if it helps.

 Kalle, looks like you were right about the "Import Broadcast wav at their timestamp." Thanks. 

jb101, thanks so much for showing me where the above is located.
 
One other thing, without your help on this matter, how would a person know to uncheck  "Import Broadcast wav at their timestamp?" This seems like an important issue that needs to be addressed by Cakewalk. Especially when FL Studio and Adobe Audition have no problem with the file. I could have looked for eternity for a solution without you guys.

I have often wondered why it is "on" by default.  It catches a lot of people out.
 
Broadcast waves carry a timestamp to say where on the timeline they belong.  This can be very useful if, e.g. you're sharing stems with someone else, so all your tracks line up, or in video/radio, where everything has to be in sync.
 
I guess my question would be, why are the files timestamped way into a project?  Someone more knowledgeable might chime in with an answer.
 
Glad you got it sorted, anyway.

OTOH,  it is quite logical, that an audio clip gets imported at the time stamp it includes. When you are assembling a project sent to you as separate wav-files from another DAW, it's the obvious way. Then again, I've never done that, so I have no first hand experience of the reliability of the stamps.
The key question, IMO, is, why does a commercial wav-sample have a time stamp that positions the file beyond the horizon?
No workarounds are needed, just uncheck the option.

Chasmcg


 Kalle, looks like you were right about the "Import Broadcast wav at their timestamp." Thanks. 

jb101, thanks so much for showing me where the above is located.
 
One other thing, without your help on this matter, how would a person know to uncheck  "Import Broadcast wav at their timestamp?" This seems like an important issue that needs to be addressed by Cakewalk. Especially when FL Studio and Adobe Audition have no problem with the file. I could have looked for eternity for a solution without you guys.

The dots are telling you that something is there. 

Scook
I cannot see how this is a Cakewalk problem, this is the fault of a few loop vendors. Why would vendors ship loops as broadcast waves? The timestamps would be of no value.

I totally agree. 

Thanks to those who posted the solution.
 

carlosagm79
OH MY GOD!!!

that was the weirdest issue ever I had with Sonar!!!!

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But obviously somebody at cakewalk have to fix or workaround that!!!
tons of wavefiles and samples simple wont load as you spected!!!!!!!!

I totally agree, and wholly disagree with those above saying this is not a Cakewalk problem. How the hell is anyone supposed to know that the dots mean (in my case) mean that a 76 bar audio file (just a wav file rendered from Logic), inserted at time 0, like hundreds other wav files I've imported into Sonar previoulsy with no problem, is there, but this time, starts at bar 1795?
 
Don't blame Logic or loop vendors; Sonar looks like the odd man out here,  because Studio One, MuLab, Adobe Audution and even 10 year old Acid Pro know to import it at the designated point (i.e. time 0:00:00).   That is just incredibly non-obvious. One shouldn't have to turn to a forum to figure this out. This, four years after the original post. Gosh, what a thing to leave out of the "continuous improvment" agenda which is the basis of the SPLAT sales pitch.  
 
To say this is normal is to be in denial.