EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 3/11/05 3:37 AM, "alecwhiting" <alec@...> wrote:

> I have up till now never thought of a reason why I should have a
> preference between wav or aif.
> 
> I tend to have all three in my samples used with esx.
> 
> 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.
> 
> So I went back to the prosamples cd and replaced the aifs with wavs
> and then everything worked fine.
> 
> 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

There is no dithering, it¹s just a truncation.

If you want dithering to 16-bits you have to first bounce the file with
dithering, then convert.

* Dave