On a fine day, 29-12-2003, robcatlender wrote:
>--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:
>> On a fine day, 28-12-2003, robcatlender wrote:
>
>> Okay, next try... load the instrument in the EXS, click the Edit
>> button to open the Instrument Editor, and then 'open' one of the
>> zones that produces noise (i.e. click the small triangle to expand
>> the zone-box). Now click on one of the little 'E's (start/endpoint
>> and loopsettings both have an 'E' button). This will load the sample
>> in Logic's sample editor. What happens then? Is the proper sample
>> loaded, or does the sample editor also produce noise?
>
>I can playback (with the tiny loudspeaker) the particular part of the sample.
>No problem. But when I close the sample editor and play my keyboard (or the
>small keyboard on screen) the noise is back again. There is only noise during
>the time the sample should sound.
And again: this is utterly weird. If the sample editor plays back
the sample correctly, so should the EXS...
> > And: what happens if you take just one bit of audio (e.g. a bounced
> > piece you did in Logic) and use that to create a new EXS instrument?
>> Noise again, or does this work properly?
>
>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?
It might be something like a format-problem... Maybe the Sample
Editor recognizes filetypes by their actual content while the EXS
trusts the file extension, which in some cases might be wrong. This
would be completely stupid, but I can't think of anything else...
I wonder what happens if you would do this: take some of the
noise-causing samples and use some 3rd party sample editor/converter
to convert the files to aiff format (yes, I know they're already
supposed to be aiff's, but maybe there's something wrong with the
format -- header info or whatever). Just try with one or two: open
in some conversion program, check to see if they sound okay, and then
save as aiff with another name. Now create a new EXS instrument
using those samples.
If that works okay, there's a format-problem somehow. You should then
simply batch-convert all offending samples and save them under the
same (old) name. Throw out (or stuff or zip, for safety's sake) the
old samples and the noise-instrument should now automatically find
the new samples and should sound right.
If conversion does _not_ work... well, I might have thought of
something else by the time you've tried this :-).
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Hendrik Jan Veenstra h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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