I'm happily using Logic 4.8 with a MOTU 2408 at the moment.
I'm planning to upgrade to a DP G4 running Logic 5.x (or maybe even 6.x by that stage!) when the whole OSX scenario settles down and I'm sure I can have a fully functioning kick-ass system.
My question is this; Having spent many hours importing my Akai CDROMS into the EXS24 (which are all 16bit 44.1kHz Samples), if I buy my nice new 96k audio card and run all my sessions at 96k, can I use my extensive EXS24 44.1kHz sample library within these lovely 96k Sessions?
Doe's Logic 'up-size' the Samples or am I living in hope ... or what...?!!

Question 2; I was considering a MOTU 2408 MkIII front-ended with Apogee DA16 & AD16. This new Universal Audio ADAT thingy looks pretty cool too. Any suggestions?!

1. You can use your sample library with 96kHz sessions.

2. I can't comment about the 2408 MkIII

you should be able to use your sample library... I don't think the ESX24 will change the rate to 96khz though... you bring up a good question that may have to be directed to Emagic for best advice because the system you speak of is only theoretical at this point and time since I don't see an OSX 96khz version of ESX24 yet. Worse case scenario is that you would have to use a seperate audio editor to change the sampling rate of the files and they would not actually benefit from the increased sampling rate due to their original 44.1khz rate.

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Maybe I should have qualified my answer before.
I said that you can use EXS24 in 96kHz sessions because I have it working on my system.
You don't need to do any conversions to the samples you don't need to buy a 96kHz version of EXS24. It just works.
Kontakt and Stylus which are also sample based instruments also work at 96kHz

Logic since version 5.2 automatically resamples on the fly - EXS24 probably did the same even before that. I've got no idea how much of a performance issue this is, but I don't think it's too bad. Logic 5.2's readme pdf has a whole page on this feature.

"Question 2; I was considering a MOTU 2408 MkIII front-ended with Apogee DA16 & AD16. This new Universal Audio ADAT thingy looks pretty cool too. Any suggestions?!"

Check out Swissonic's AD-8 with the ADAT Option. Less expensive than the Apogee or then Universal Audio. Engineer Andy Jackson preferred the sound even over Digital Audio Denmarks when he tried it whilst mastering the new Dave Gilmour DVD.

Wiff's advice is (as they say in Ireland, sound as a pound.) He knows gear like the back of his hand! Hi, Wiff!



The EXS24 will simply work, no matter what sample rate your library is in. Logic and it's soft instruments/audio tracks support simultaeneous multiple sample rates (ie: everything plays back, even if they're at different rates - very cool)



On question 2:

I personally love Apogee convertors, so no problems using their products - wonderful though a bit pricey, but I do think their stuff is worth every penny...

Swissonic gear can be found in racks next to the most advanced gear available in high end studios...as is Apogee...

I have a MOTU 2408 MkII but don't know about the MkIII...

Thanks for the info guys.

Just one more thing: will my EXS24 Library (imported and saved under OS9) work under Logic 5 OSX?

Thanks in advance.

JackC

yes it will work fine...just drag your existing "sampler instruments" folder into your new Logic 5.4 folder (running under OSX) and it will function as normally.

you should also drag your EXSamples folder into your Logic 5.4 folder too for tidiness (although the EXS24 will find the samples no matter where this folder is...)



happy logicking!

You can also make an alias of your "Sampler instruments" folder and put it in your OS X Logic folder in case you want to work in both OS 9 and OS X for a while. That way if you add new instruments to your OS 9 folder they will automatically show up in OS X.