Good morning,

hmmm right now I'm restricted to my MIDI patch bank
but I'm eventually looking into some sample CDs
I've put a list of the ones that I'm thinking about getting (eventually)
at the end of this message

My QUESTION is this:
often times many sample CDs are released with different versions taylored to a specific format (GIGA, HALion, ACID etc)
What bit depts and sample rates are typical for:

GIGAstudio, AKAI & ACID
are these typically set for 24bit 96khz recording or is the
extra money simply to have a CD taylored to a popular sample format.

The only reason that I would buy a CD not in WAV or CD-audio is for the higher sample rates, I wouldn't want to pay $175 for a giga CD and have the rates still be at 16/44 when I could've paid $100 for the same disk, but in a different format.

WAV and CD AUdio I'm assuming are 16/44


Thank you for your time,
--Joshua

sample CDs (taken from my bookmark list)

Sounds Online: Scoring Tools GIGA
Sounds Online: Ultimate Strings GIGA
Sounds Online: Twisted Textures AUDIO
Spectrasonics - Symphony of Voices
ZEROGcs - Chemical Beats
Sounds Online: PMI Grandioso Bosendorfer 290 GIGA CD
Sounds Online: Breakz From the Nu Skool AKAI/AUD
Sounds Online: Dance Mega Synth AUD/AK/EMU
Sounds Online: Cuckooland Unhinged Multi Format
ZEROGcs - Akoustik Bass Hitz
Sounds Online: Best of XX Large AKAI/EMU
Sounds Online: XX Large Pads 2 AUDIO
Sounds Online: XX-Large Pads AUDIO
Sounds Online: XX-Large String Machines AUDIO
ZEROGcs - K-Klass
Sounds Online: Seismic Frequencies AUDIO/WAV
ZEROGcs - Ambient Volume 2
ZEROGcs - Downbeat Dance Grooves
ZEROGcs - Total Trance