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SD2 Files' fate - WAS, Re: Kurzweil Samples

2003-04-14 by Jonathan Perl

on 4/14/03 3:51 AM, Garth Hjelte wrote:

> (BTW, Sound Designer files have a great edge in that they can alter their
> control information (not the sample data) without rewriting the sample data
> at all, since their info is in the resource fork, not the data fork. But
> that fact dooms their format for cross-platform, because PC's don't take
> resource fork things, and they don't read Mac disks normally. (Actually,
> there is a way, but PC apps don't recognize this normally.))

Does this mean that SD2 audio files will be unusable when moving to OS-X,
which as I understand doesn't use a 2-fork system? Or does OS-X have a
built-in translator?
     This question is for audio files in songs as well as for sampler
instruments that use them.

Jonathan Perl
Sonic Arts Center @ The City College Of New York
(212) 650-6837
http://sonic.arts.ccny.cuny.edu

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