As Derek said FCP works fine with WAVE files, but you may have look where they do come from.
It's easy to figure out, either ask or import one and then export as XML.
If they come from a audio hard disk recorder you may look for "QuickTime" in the XML with TextEdit. You may see some odd things like:
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<storage>QuickTime</storage>
<key>info.ixml.xml</key>
<size>4096</size>
<type>UTF8</type>
<value><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<BWFXML>
<IXML_VERSION>1.41</IXML_VERSION>
<SCENE>ANDREAS</SCENE>
<TAKE>1</TAKE>
<TAPE></TAPE>
<UBITS>11100601</UBITS>
<FILE_UID>02061</FILE_UID>
<NOTE></NOTE>
<SPEED>
<TIMECODE_FLAG>DF</TIMECODE_FLAG>
<TIMECODE_RATE>30/1</TIMECODE_RATE>
</SPEED>
<TRACK_LIST>
<TRACK_COUNT>4</TRACK_COUNT>
<TRACK>
<CHANNEL_INDEX>1</CHANNEL_INDEX>
<INTERLEAVE_INDEX>1</INTERLEAVE_INDEX>
<NAME>Boom</NAME>
</TRACK>
<TRACK>
<CHANNEL_INDEX>2</CHANNEL_INDEX>
<INTERLEAVE_INDEX>2</INTERLEAVE_INDEX>
<NAME>Mix 2</NAME>
</TRACK>
<TRACK>
<CHANNEL_INDEX>3</CHANNEL_INDEX>
<INTERLEAVE_INDEX>3</INTERLEAVE_INDEX>
<NAME>LAV1</NAME>
</TRACK>
<TRACK>
<CHANNEL_INDEX>4</CHANNEL_INDEX>
<INTERLEAVE_INDEX>4</INTERLEAVE_INDEX>
<NAME>LAV2</NAME>
</TRACK>
</TRACK_LIST>
</BWFXML> </value>
If there is something like that, just copy it and replace the odd things like " ", ">" with ">" or may with space, same with "<" to "<" or space.
Search for "TIMECODE_FLAG" and "TIMECODE_RATE" and you can somehow easily figure out whether the original recording matches your FCP setting (Project with v6 or start up setting with 5.1.x)
In this case we find "DF" and "30" which won't work at all with any version of FCP neither with timecode or length.
But with short recordings it shouldn't matter.
Regards
Andreas
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