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Re: How many exs instruments until exs24 won't load?

2004-02-18 by Nick Batzdorf

This proves that one should never question anything I post...  :)

And actually, I think I may have run into that limit too.

>  >>    From: Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>
>  >> Subject: Re: How many exs instruments until exs24 won't load?
>  >>
>  >> On a fine day, 17-02-2004, orgeneral wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> Is there a limit to the exs files that one can have in folder?
>  >>
>  >> Yes.  I don't recall the exact number, but there is indeed an upper
>  >> limit to the  amount of .exs-files the EXS can handle, and it seems
>  >> you've run into that limit.  Very annoying and unprofessional
>  >> limitation imo.  The only way out is to move some exs files you don't
>  >> need that often to another folder.
>  >

I wrote:

>  > EXSManager Pro (www.Redmatica.com) has a way of consolidating VSL
>  > files into one, so EXS sees it as one file and you don't reach the #
>  > open files limit. I'm not sure if it would work with other libraries.
>  > --
>  >
>
>
>Actually ExsManager solves the problem for number of *samples* used,
>but not for the total number of instruments inside the exs folder.
>We have to wait for Emagic to solve that one...
>
>
>Best Regards
>Andrea at Redmatica
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

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