EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 09:19 PM 4/29/01 +0200, you wrote:

> >If u do a LOOP with the EXS at the right TEMPO... OK
> >But if after, i want to try the same WAV on the ARRANGE WINDOW it's not the
> >same....
> >and u know why.....
> >Because EMAGIC used the AIFF audio system conversion on WAVs...U can lose
> >few "samples"...
>
>Why? Only a buggy program could lose samples between AIFF and RIFF. Is the
>system conversion buggy?
>********
>Not at all... It's not a Conversion or a lost samples problem.
>It's a simple fact :
>The WAV include ( play) the last sample point ( in a LOOP MODE) and not the
>AIFF, the AIFF don't play the Last Point...
>example :
>If you have Loop who start at sample "0" and END "100" , the WAV play The
>Point "100" and go back from the point 0, the AIFF play  till the Point "99"
>and go back from the Top.
>The EXS converts all the samples as AIFF.
>It's the same problem with SF2 format, the last point is not played.

Is that a result of the the AIFF and RIFF specifications themselves, or a 
result of the specifications of the playback softwares?

So when you refer to "lost samples", you are not referring to samples that 
are not transferred, but to loop points that are incorrect?

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User