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- From: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Question on AIFF format
- Message-ID: <37064@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:23:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.164321.29968@cognos.com> <1992Nov4.192112.29300@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Reply-To: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov4.192112.29300@midway.uchicago.edu> dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.164321.29968@cognos.com> heeschv@cognos.com (Brian VanHeesch) writes:
- >>Is AIFF simply a digitize sample of sounds? (as opposed to a MOD)
- >>On the macintosh they are referred to as SNDs.
- >>
- >>I have a Macintosh and not an Amiga, and am interested in converting
- >>between the two.
- >
- >Oh, wow. First, I suggest you get the audio file formats document in
- >alt.binaries.sounds.d. It explains these things.
- >
- >If that's too much to wade through, here's a quick summary. A mod is
- >a collection of sampled sounds and a sequencing track describing to
- >the player program in what order, and with what special effects, to
- >play the 'samples'. Almost every other sound format (execptions
- >include .mid and .rol) is sampled audio. 'SND ' is the resource type
- >of a Mac system sound. AIFF is actually another Mac-based format
- >that's used separately from the system -- i.e., it's not installed as
- >a beep. AIFF is quite similar to, but more flexible than, IFF, the
- >predominant Amiga format for sampled sound. Other formats you might
- [stuff deleted from here...]
-
- Actually, AIFF is an Apple registered IFF FORM type. It is documented
- in the Amiga Devices Rom Kernal Manual, and in many Apple documents. As
- AIFF is a subset of IFF, it wouldn't be correct to say that's it's more
- flexible. It would, however be safe to say that AIFF is more flexible
- than 8SVX, the predominant Amiga 8-bit sampling format, mainly because
- AIFF can describe non-8-bit samples.
-
- /// Christian Ludwig - Commodore CATS (chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com)
- ///
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