EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 07:32 PM 9/2/04 -0400, you wrote:

> > Is there any way when importing/converting sample to exs format that 
> the EXS
> > can assign the samples "MEANINGFUL" instrument names that make sense 
> and mean something.
> > Why dont sample instrument names show up as  like  "brass slide 1",  Eb
> > tympani, muted trumpet, woodwind section 2, ....whatever.. as oppose to 
> meaningless crap
> > like... STB XLWRV-SS.exs, 63WETSECT CH.exs, ER LOOPSA144.exs...
> > this crap means nothing musical to me. Is there any solution for this.

>the AKAI disk format was a descendant of the old DOS school of thought 
>with a limited number of alpha
>numeric characters allowed in the file name.  You can easily just go to 
>your sampler instrument folder and rename them anything you like.  Just be 
>sure to keep the .exs extension at the end of the name.  Tedious, but I 
>think it's the only way.

James is right. Hardware samplers were manufactured when memory and design 
limitation were significant.

Now, if you are cyncial, you say - "why do modern hardware synths and 
samplers have the SAME name limitations!"

Gosh, I don't know! Maybe it's because the engineers know that the display 
can't handle that many characters. It's sort of a Catch 22 - a reasonable 
display name tops out at 32 characters, really. YOu can tell when you 
program an Emu sampler. That handles 16 characters, and still you wind up 
with having to abbreviate.

At least the Emu deals with lots of characters. The Akai only dealt with 
uppercase letters, numbers, and a few other characters. And only 12 
characters - 10 if you were dealing with stereo.

But - on the constructive end of the argument... that's a great idea I'm 
going to suggest to be put into Translator.

Right now I'm looking at a set of Akai samples that look like this:

CL LGFFD#4-L
CL LGFFD#4-R
CL LBFF A5-L
CL LBFF A5-R
...

Imagine if you had a user-defined palette of substitution name, or even 
something that used regular expressions. In this case the "LG" would be 
replaced with "Long ", "FF" with "ff ", and the "CL" with "Clarinet ".

This would address this persons complaint.

James idea need more explanation, though - you just can't go in and rename 
sample files - then the EXS loses track of them. You'd have to rename the 
sample files and then reattach them. UGGG


Garth Hjelte
Sampler User