EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

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

At 12:52 PM 4/14/03 -0400, you wrote:

>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?

It's actually HFS, the "Mac" disk system, that uses the fork system. MacOS 
is just adapted to take advantage of it. (the "translator")

OSX adapts itself to it also, so no, OSX does "use" a two-fork system. 
Otherwise upward compatibility would be impossible.

This is a good example of standard formats only being as good as the 
programs and manufacturers that adopt them, and also what they do with them.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User