Cubase Question - Mixing Down

I'll start off with a warning that I AM A RECORDING BEGINNER!!!

Recording a bunch of tracks with a 4 track recorder, imported each of the .wav tracks into Cubase LE, did all sorts of things to them, mixed them, got it sounding like I wanted, saved it all. Two complete songs so far. Sounds not too bad when I try playing them with Cubase, but when I try to save the works as a complete .wav file, to burn to a CD, I end up with a really small file that I cannot play. Been through the help a couple of times, perhaps I'm missing something simple, but if anyone can familiar with Cubase could point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Nevermind, found my mistake. I didn't realize you had to set the locators to select what you want to mixdown. I had everything else but was just mixing down a very small sample of my song.

When I started with cubase I did the same exact thing. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was not doing. Well, welcome to the club! I'm sure there will be more. Routing can be kinda weird sometimes so be fore-warned.

When I started with cubase I did the same exact thing. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what I was not doing. Well, welcome to the club! I'm sure there will be more. Routing can be kinda weird sometimes so be fore-warned.

Same here - DOH!

Cubase is one scarily BIG program and you often work out how to do something only to discover that there was a one-click way of doing it if you'd only known where to look.

I struggled because I'd used Bars & Pipes on the Amiga (great program for MIDI) up until about three years ago and it was a big leap to get used to such a different program. The best help I had to get started was a DVD trainer - three DVD's from beginners to advanced - very useful and the info sunk in quickly.