EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 06-01-2004, uswitalski@... wrote:

>  >> Just put Logic on your system drive (or partition) and your samples
>>>  on another, and you'll be fine. And if you're only using EXSs
>>>  lightly
>>>  - i.e. you're not streaming a lot of voices - you can ignore this.
>
>>  Interesting. My Logic *and* samples are both on the same drive (a
>>  slow laptop drive). Is there a significant performance benefit to put
>>  the samples on say an external 7,200rpm drive? Presumably you have to
>>  put aliases or something in the Logic:EXS home directory?
>
>just a thought: if logic (exs) finds aliases instead of the "real" files in
>the directory it is looking for (afaik you cant point it anywhere but the
>standart) it has to look further following the path the alias is heading...
>
>dosn't this involve _more_ hd action?
>
>just a thought, which might show that all that "optimization techiques" are
>two sided and of yesterday, if you ask me.
>i keep all samples and programms on a sepereat drive, but just for mobility
>my 2 byte.

This question seems to come up every few weeks at least...  The EXS 
*instruments* (.exs files) should go in the Logic application > 
Sampler Instruments folder.  The samples themselves can be stored 
anywhere -- the EXS will find them automatically.
And yes, it's a good idea to store samples and recorded audio on a 
dedicated drive.  The system drive is needed all the time (by the 
system) and streaming audio from a dedicated drive thus naturally 
increases performance.
Storing samples on a dedicated drive will _not_ introduce a 
performance hit.  The 1st time an instrument is loaded in the EXS, 
the EXS needs some time to figure out where the samples are.  The 
location of the samples is then written in the instrument file, so 
that next time you load the instrument, it loads much faster.
I'm not sure if using aliasses would introduce a performance hit, but 
there's no reason to alias your samples anyway, so why would you?
If you want to store your _instrument files_ someplace else, you can 
(I think) put an alias to the instruments folder in the Logic > 
Sampler Instruments folder.  Personally I don't see the benefit of 
that though.  Instrument files are small and need to be accessed only 
once, so there's not much gained (if anything) by storing them 
someplace else.

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