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Re: wav vs aif vs SDII

2005-03-11 by bernard chavonnet

Even though the ProSamples CDs have all samples available
in .wav and .aif files, the EXS24 instruments use the wav files
only. This is something that I verified on 2 prosamples CDs.
The aif files on these CDs are useless.

Bernard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alecwhiting" <alec@...>
To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 6:37 AM
Subject: [EXS] wav vs aif vs SDII


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> I have up till now never thought of a reason why I should have a 
> preference between wav or aif.
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> I tend to have all three in my samples used with esx.
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> However recently I had a problem where a song was open with two 
> exs's, one had wav one had aif. The aif one however couldn't see its 
> files, although I verified there presence where they should have 
> been. It just refused to see them.
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> So I went back to the prosamples cd and replaced the aifs with wavs 
> and then everything worked fine.
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> Also does anyone know, when you convert a 24bit file to 16 using 
> logic save file, with lower than current bit depth, does this mean 
> that logic is dealing with dithering for you when it converts. I am 
> worried I will one day find noise in the esx samples I have created. 
> The logic manual I have is poor on this subject.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Alec
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