EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 05-07-2004, Julie Larson wrote:

>Thanks for the input.   I'm attempting to move the project now.  I've
>always just let Logic put things where it wanted, not having time to
>pay too much attention to admin stuff....but I guess that tactic is
>starting to bite.  Is there some place to get info about the most
>efficient way to organize things?

"The" most efficient way is probably a matter of taste, but for what 
it's worth, I usually organize things like this:
- Top level folder, named after the song.
- In that folder are 2 folders: Sampler Instruments and Audio.  The 
former holds all EXS instrument files used in that song (even if 
they're unmodified 'originals' -- you never know if you want to 
slightly edit the originals one day, or have a hd-crash wiping out 
all originals, or whatever), and the latter holds all recorded audio. 
If you record many takes on many instruments, you could put 
subfolders in the Audio folder with the proper instruments names. 
The advantage of having just the one Audio folder is that you have to 
set the record path only once when you start the 1st recording.  With 
subfolders, you have to reset the record path each time you start 
recording a new instrument.
- The song file is saved at the top level, next to the Sampler 
Instruments and Audio folders.
- If you want you can add a 3rd folder which will contain the plug-in 
effects settings you used and want to save for future import-use.

About the record path: make sure your Autoload has no Record Path 
set.  Go to Audio Configuration (yes, of all places...) and there's a 
menu option there somewhere to clear the Record Path.  Do so, and 
save the song as Autoload.  This way, any new project you start will 
prompt you for a record path when you start the 1st recording.  This 
will save you from accidentally recording into whichever folder was 
set in the Autoload (always the wrong one).

Hope this gets you going in the right direction.  Not organizing 
things indeed starts to bite you one day -- with the zillion snippets 
of audio, sampler instruments that might change overnight, etc.  This 
indeed calls for some planning ahead.

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