Sound

[samsc]

Multichannel sound only seems to playback white noise when an aif is selected - I;ve tried a number of different files - .aif and they are the same. Files are large, so I wont attach them, but its a straight copy from a CD. - drag and drop.
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Simon.

Its seems when you drag and drop a file from a CD using the finder - it uses PC byte ordering!!!!

It uses 'little endian' format - rather than the normal macintosh 'big endian' format....

This was really unexpected...
Thats why it sounds like noise.

Very very wierd why apple chose to do this. I might submit a bug report to apple.

[Mr_P]

Managed to Import my tracks using i-tunes - no white noise

However - how do I choose to use 'big endian' for drag and drop?

I've also found a nice little sound converter program that does loads - is aiff the best format to use? (have set it up for aiff 48Hz 16bit stereo) Seems to re-produce ok on a show sound system...

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