EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>
> I would like to be able to keep some EXS instruments in more
> than one folder (within the Sampler Instruments folder), for example 
> if the
> instrument can be categorized in more than one way. However this gets
> unwieldy if actual file copies are used for this purpose-- because1) 
> It creates
> unnecessary file duplicates, and 2) if one copy of an instrument gets 
> edited
> and saved then the other copy won't reflect these changes. so it causes
> confusion.
>
> Aliases of the instruments would solve this problem quite elegantly, 
> but when
> I make aliases, I can't seem to get them to appear in the instrument 
> list. EXS
> doesn't seem to recognize them as legitimate files. It appears that 
> one can
> only alias the Sampler Instruments folder as a whole, but not anything 
> below
> that in the structural heirarchy, because EXS simply won't see it. Am 
> I doing
> something wrong, or is simply not possible? If it isn't possible then 
> I'd like to
> express to emagic that this functionality needs to be added!

Hello all, hello Dan

I'm rather new on the list although not new with Logic and EXS24 ; as I 
play mainly traditional music (on the pipes), I don't work so much with 
EXS24 and I have certainly still a lot to learn here, but I can answer 
on that point ;-)

As far as I know, EXS24 don't recognize aliases of .exs files, BUT 
recognizes aliases of folders, even for the "Sampler Instruments" one 
(but I don't remember if all previous versions do it for this folder : 
I work now with Platinum 6.3.2 on Panther).
I store the "Sampler Instruments" in my document folder and just let an 
alias of it in the Logic folder. This avoid to lost my own exs 
instruments when installing a new version or reinstalling in a new 
computer (what happenned, so I tryed that way).
I do also the same for the "PlugIns settings" folder.

Cheers
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Gérald Ryckeboer