EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Bernard  wrote: 
>
> > Logic's own gig converter truncated the file names and created a set of
> > non-unique references. CDXtract did not truncate the names - it preserved
> the
> > full file names. However, the EXS24 instrument CDXtract generated could
> not
> > load the files with long names ( approx 40 characters). So both failed -
> > perhaps Bernard Chavonet will address this in an update of CDXtract.
>
> Actually CDXtract does address this issue of long file names. You were
> probably using an old version. 



Hi Bernard,

I think I used  Version 4.1.3 or 4.1.4.  I currently have 4.1.5. 

The EXS24 instrument createdby CDXtract was composed of zones which had the
full long file names in the file windows. These were 40 characters or so long
in the case of a set of 18 Kick drum files. This EXS24 instrument would not
load with these files with long names in the instrument definition and the
whole instrument would not play - not just the kick. There was nothing wrong
with the audio files - I could play them in other apps. 

The instrument created by Logic worked properly except for the kick drum which
had all 18 zones loaded with the same sample - the quietest of all the samples.
Due to the lack of unique names all the kick drum file names were truncated and
when successive audio files from the set were saved to disk they overwrote the
previous one so that only the last file remained and this was the one for the
lowest velocity range.  All 18 kick zones pointed to this one file. 


>
> All giga samples with a name longer than
> 27 characters (4 characters must be reserved for the ".aiff" or ".wav:
> extension) are automatically renamed with a unique name. And CDXtract
> 5 which is currently under development will support long file names
> without any need to rename them.



Regards,
Murray