EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I've actually gone through this trauma, so I'll share the experience
here, longwinded though it may be.  

EastWest does not provide support to Mac, only to Windows -- hence the
.rar compressed format on the CD.  Garth is right to suggest the
manufacturer should support this, but after extended discussions with
reasonable EastWest people (Rhys in particular is an intelligent
fellow) it became clear that to EastWest Mac is a small market they
are prepared not support (at least this was true last year).  When you
buy from EastWest, it's clear from them that they do not support Mac.  

A year ago, I was unable to be successful using Stuffit or similar for
Mac, so I had to take the step of using Virtual PC to extract the .rar
file to the .gig file which is 889MB in size (and hence won't fit onto
a standard CD without compression) -- 528 samples in all, but for
whatever reason, only one overall .gig file.  Having done this, I was
able to use the "shared drive" feature of Virtual PC to move between
the PC and Mac world.  Once onto the Mac, the filename length was no
issue.  I moved the .gig file into the samples folder within the
Emagic folder, I believe (don't quite remember this detail, because it
was the simplest part of the whole operation).  Upon hitting "refresh
menu" within EXS the Steinway piano appeared.  Choosing that led to
the .gig conversion and extraction of the 528 individual .wav files,
which exs stored within a folder within the "gigasamples folder" exs
created, as best I understand or recall the process.  The piano sounds
great!  Worth the effort!  I hope some of this is of help to you.  Let
me know :)  

I don't usually post (because usually I don't know how to help), so I
hope this post meets exs user group guidelines.  Apologies if through
my own ignorance it does not.

Cheers, Larry

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Garth Hjelte <garth@c...> wrote:
> At 06:43 PM 11/2/03 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, jbaxter792@a... wrote:
> > > Have you moved the file(s) to the Sampler Instruments directory?
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >thanks for the suggestion... i tried that but to no avail.
> >what i have on the  giga cd is a .exe file.
> >wonder if herein lies the problem
> 
> Sure is - that's the installer, so it has to be installed, but you
can't 
> run a Windows .exe on a Mac...
> 
> Those .exe's are usually RAR installers. Those appear if you drag
them on 
> StuffIt Expander, and you can expand them. Then they usually become
.gig 
> files, and just make sure they are in or "connected to" the Sampler 
> Instruments folder via location or alias.
> 
> Just a guess, but I know that's the case with several libraries.
> 
> Don't you have the documentation for the libraries, and if you do
(if you 
> don't, why not?), doesn't the manufacturer cover this sort of stuff?
> 
> Garth Hjelte
> Sampler User