Sample Cd's And Me...a Logic Scenario, help! Options

[tokyoroland]

Alright, so lately I have been bombarded with possibilites in getting professional quality sounds from going to the kvrvst and sonic control website.

I want to know how Logic (osx 5.3) coincides with Gigasampler, Gigastudio, you know the Giga format in general and how the exs24 fits in.

In order to use, like, Garritan, Spectrasonics, and mostly the good-quality but less expensive sample cd's.... will I need to get the exs24 AND the giga studio/sampler??? Will the exs24 be unessasary? or will the giga studio/sampler be unessesary?

Can all sample cd's be loaded into Logic on osx (10.1.5 for now)?

Why would I need the giga workstation if I already have Logic?

Will the exs24 do the job of the giga studio/sampler??

I just want to know the next step..... should I just get the exs24 and get sample cd's....do they need to be in Akai format?

I heard the new exs24mk11 can load giga formats.. is this true?

I am all lost and undone? Does anyone here understand me?

I hope I'm not confusing anyone greatly..

- Jeffro

[filarion]

cdextract is commercial software and not available for free I think. However, in OS9 you do not need CDEXTRACT. EXS24 in OS9 can import Akai, emagic just hasn't added that feature to the OSX version. So you can import your akais in Logic/exs24 in os9 and use the same exs-samples folder for both os9 and osx, then everything works fine. cdextract is currently in beta for osx, that's what I meant that soon you might be able to use an osx only solution. I for instance hate booting into os9 since everytime I switch between os9 and osx my multiface's firmware is replaced.