EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

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

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.
> 
> 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
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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