You’re not dragging/dropping a .wav file from Finder/Explorer to your desktop – you’re moving objects with proprietary OS handles, and between different programs. It’s not as “obvious” as it sounds, and it is appreciated. As a comparison, try moving a .wav sample to/from Kontakt/Battery/Mach5/Maschine/etc to an audio track and see what happens.
I tried this and it opens fine in Wavelab and I carry out my edits but then when I try and save it so that I can go back to Cubase, it won’t let me? Clearly I cant drag and drop back in cubase either?
Maybe I’m missing something obvious but I much prefer doing my edits in Wavelab than in Cubase
AFAIK it’s impossible, and that’s where my applause comes to an end.
Although I understand some of the logic that is going on “behind the scenes” (metadata, the need to write new files into the right directory, etc…) I still find it completely puzzling that Steinberg cannot work simple stuff like this out.
Again, it’s 2012, guys…We are not talking about rocket science here!