EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 05-07-2004, Mothra wrote:

>Keeping my EXS samples with the song is a great idea.
>[...]
>Youre keeping both the samples AND the instrument file in that one
>folder no?

No, I'm just storing the instrument files in the song folder.  The 
samples themselves are on a dedicated drive and are shared by all 
songs.  Keeping the samples with the song might not even be a bad 
idea (although it might be somewhat overkill as well), as then you're 
_really_ sure you've got everything you need in one location.
Drawback: the instrument files will be associated with the location 
where you keep your 'regular' samples, and so the (copy of the) 
instrument you use in a song has to be manually "re-associated" with 
the samples you copy to your song folder -- which might be a drag 
with a 100-sample multi-layer instrument (obvious solution: don't 
copy the samples but move them, i.e. copy & delete original, load 
song-specific instrument, let the EXS find the samples, and then copy 
the copies back to the original location so that the _original_ 
instrument will still find the proper samples as well).  Another 
drawback: you end up with lots of duplicate samples on your drives. 
That not only takes up a lot of space but can potentially confuse the 
EXS as well.

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