I.M. Groot Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 When you bounce a project, do you bounce it as a .WAV file, an .AIFF file, or something else? Why do you choose the file format you choose? Every time I bounce a project I see that .AIFF is already populated as the default choice: but why not .WAV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaatza Music Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I always bounce to wave format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Enrize Posted December 31, 2017 Solution Share Posted December 31, 2017 Its the same uncompressed audio data. AIFF was originally came from Mac and WAV from PC world. The only difference in the header information inside the file afaik... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherking Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 wav just seems most common. all of the stems or tracks i get for remixing come as wav files, and my mastering peep asks for wav as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Wav is very common but as Enrize pointed out all those options (wave, aiff, caf) affect only the header data – the audio data inside the files is exactly the same uncompressed PCM audio data. So basically if you're not sure, it doesn't matter. If someone who's going to work with the file requests one or the other, choose whatever they ask for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashermusic Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Not sure if it is still true, maybe David knows, but it used to be that AIFF time stamps audio files but not regions while Wave time stamps both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Not sure if it is still true, maybe David knows, but it used to be that AIFF time stamps audio files but not regions while Wave time stamps both. Not exactly: there's no such thing as a timestamp on a region, which isn't a file on its own, but rather part of a Logic project file. Now as far as I know, any app can timestamp any file (AIFF or WAV) however WAV files have a standard timestamp that can be recognized by any other app whereas for AIFF files apps use a proprietary way of adding a timestamp which may not be recognized by another app. So basically you're better off using WAV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashermusic Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Yes, a region is just a part of an audio file but my understanding is that if you cut a region from a.wav and bring it into e. g. Pro Tools and tell it to move it to its original position, it will go to the regions position while with the aiff it will go to the audio file's original position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Yes, a region is just a part of an audio file Not really: a region is just a reference to an audio file (so a location in the Finder), with a couple of numbers that indicate from which sample number to which other sample number the audio file should play, along with a location that determines where the region should play in the project. but my understanding is that if you cut a region from a.wav and bring it into e. g. Pro Tools You can't cut a region and bring it into Pro Tools. You can "bring into Pro Tools" only an audio file. So you'd have to cut the region and export the new region as a new audio file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashermusic Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Yes, I know, a region just says ":look over there" I know that there was some difference though in what happens with regions and audio files brought into PT but I will have to research it to remember and anyway, it doesn't matter because wave files have become the standard pretty much. Logic should default to them IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I know that there was some difference though in what happens with regions and audio files brought into PT You can't "bring a region" into PT. You most likely remember importing an AIFF file from Logic to PT vs importing a WAV file from Logic to PT. PT would read the WAV file timestamp, not the AIFF timestamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashermusic Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Could be but I swear there was a region factor. But getting old is not always pretty EDIT: After doing some research, it seems like my confusion on this was due to some Pro Tools based engineers playing fast and loose with the term "region." So, David is right, as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M. Groot Posted January 3, 2018 Author Share Posted January 3, 2018 David is right, as usual. David truly is an expert on Logic Pro X. (And a nice guy to boot!) Thanks for clarifying this question David. And thanks to everyone else for the instructive discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashermusic Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I am an expert in Logic Pro as well but David is an expert in digital audio and computer science as well, and that is the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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