EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 01-02-2004, choros15 wrote:

>Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:
>>
>>  Yes, they should.  I suppose you already tried the "Refresh" option
>>  in the instrument list?  How about moving the Logic preferences to
>>  the desktop and then relaunching Logic -- would that do anything?
>>  Next thing to try: create a new instrument (click the Edit button in
>>  the EXS to open the Instrument Editor, create a new zone and assign
>>  some sample to it, then save the instrument in the proper folder).
>>  Does this newly created instrument appear in the instrument list?
>
>
>---Thanks for responding Hendrik,
>    I dragged the Logic 6 Series folder to my desktop and then opened 
>my Logic song and tried to use the exs24 and again No Instruments in 
>the menu.Is this what you meant to try when you said move the Logic 
>preferences?

No :).  In OS9 the prefs are in System:Preferences:Logic 5 
Preferences.  In OSX they're... (I always forget, still being on 9 
myself)  something with 'emagic' and 'plist'.  Look both in the 
system prefs folder (top level of your HD and then Preferences) and 
in the user-prefs folder (your home folder, and then Preferences). 
Then locate some emagic...plist file.  Move it to the desktop, 
relaunch Logic, check if the problem has gone away.  If not: move the 
prefs-file back (overwriting the newly created one).  If the problem 
did go away, don't trash the old prefs-file yet, as it contains your 
custom keycommands: open the Key Command window in Logic, and pick 
'import' (or something like that) from the menu, locate the old 
prefs-file and import the key commands from it.  _Now_ you can safely 
trash the old prefs file.
Tip: if the prefs indeed were the cause of the problem, make a backup 
copy of the new (properly working) prefs file that Logic created 
(after you've adjuested the prefs in Logic to your taste of course), 
so that if you ever need to remove the prefs-file again, you'll still 
have a properly working copy (saves quite some time setting up your 
preferences next time around).

>     Your next suggestion:I I'm not sure what this is or how to do 
>it.I opened the Instrument Editor and clicked Zone but all the 
>choices, including new zone, in the drop down menu are greyed out.
>     I can click on the Instrument tab then click New in it's drop 
>down menu then Click the Zone tab and that let's me choose New Zone. 
>I then get a box on my screen that has Zone #1 in the upper left 
>corner.

That's a new instrument you created with 1 zone: exactly what I meant.

>Underneath that is Audio File with a blank space to it's right.

Click in the blank space and a file-dialog will come up. Pick some 
sample from your harddisk (just don't pick a 2 GB recording, but 
something modest, like a kick drum, or a violin note, or whatever). 
You've now created a 1-sample EXS instrument.

>Underneath that it says Group and next to it says No Group in the Blank
>Space.There are other choices below these in the box as well.

Ignore all the rest.  Just put a sample in the zone, as described 
above.  Then pick 'Save As' from the same menu where you found 'New' 
and save the instrument in the Sampler Instruments folder.  Close the 
Instrument Editor and check the EXS instrument list: is your new 
instrument showing up?

>   And yes,I've tried "Refresh"...many times:-(

Are you sure you only have *1* "Sampler Instruments" folder in your 
system, and that it is in the same folder in which the Logic 
application itself lives?

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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