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Re: I get nothing but noise from my newly made instrument ?

2003-12-31 by Guy Hatton

>> I' ve made a new instrument with a sound of the EXS standard 
>> -samples. And
>> also other instruments with AIFF files.
>> I found out that there appears to be a difference between a
>> aiff-file (which gives problems all the time) and a aif-file (which
>> works fine). I thought it was the same thing.
>
> It *is* the same thing.  The 'aif' or 'aiff' is just a file extension
> (like in DOS) and has nothing to do with the actual format of the
> sample.
>
>> Could this be part of the trouble?
>> How do you advise to handle this?

You would think they were the same, wouldn't you? However, I have also 
noticed this odd behaviour sometimes in other applications - .aiff 
extender = noise, .aif plays back fine. If I remember correctly, simply 
removing that extra 'f' was sufficient to cure the problem.


Peace

Guy Hatton
XLR8 Recordings
http://www.xlr8-recordings.co.uk

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