I just noticed that all the sfz files for SD3 contain pointers to WAV files for the samples
but the actual samples are FLAC files (with the same names).

Shouldn't this cause a problem ? Or does SD3 (and others ?) look for flac files when it doesn't find the wav file ?

I'm mostly interested in hearing about this out of curiosity as things obviously seem to work.

it only uses sfz files that call up flac files for their sounds.
the sfz files have variations in them thus not having to have 50 flac files each at a different velocity.
at the end of this video you can see where I change the sfz files and not the flac files to change the hi hats.
the hi hat in session drummer is one of those instruments that have 2 files in one,open hat and closed hat.
thus if it were .wav there would need to be a slew of files.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjZS61Wg-XY
 
I can only guess the pointers are there for the drag and drop feature.
which you are able to drag .wav samples in and drop them on each instrument of the kit.
 

Paul P


I just noticed that all the sfz files for SD3 contain pointers to WAV files for the samples
but the actual samples are FLAC files (with the same names).

Shouldn't this cause a problem ? Or does SD3 (and others ?) look for flac files when it doesn't find the wav file ?

I'm mostly interested in hearing about this out of curiosity as things obviously seem to work.

Yes, if it can't find the WAV files it looks for alternate sound files with the same name.  This is non standard behavior though, so don't expect all SFZ players to have this behavior.


Rail

Thanks Rail. I noticed Dimension Pro also has this 'feature'.

I just got hold of a windows grep utility so I clean up these files.