EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Greetings

1. Why does the EXS not play newly loaded samples until you save the 
instrument (which takes 70 seconds on my G4 DP 1.25) and reload it ( 
about 10 seconds)? This means you can't play the sample to find out 
its pitch without going into the waveform editor. None of the 
multi-sampled instruments I want to import have notes named in the 
files.

2.Why does the Project Manager give me red triangles on some samples 
and not others when I do a scan or a Find Unresolved Files, when both 
load happily, although slowly, and play properly. I thought it might 
be because the samples are nested too deep in folders. But PM won't 
move them if they're red, and if I move them by hand, PM still won't 
find them however many scans and Find Unresolved Files I try. I know 
i can buy Redmatica whatsit, but this is what Project manager is 
supposed to do, isn't it?

3. Why is the keyboard allocation for new samples so restrictive i.e. 
there is no bulk allocation into a preprepared template.

4. Why, if I type C4 into the Key Note box, does it show C3 (60) and 
why does this behaviour not change according to the setting of "Show 
Middle C as C3 (Yamaha?). (I don't have transposition set on the 
arrange page).

On the sampler i owned TWENTY years ago, you could select a sample 
with the cursor - it played, if that was you preference, and then the 
next three notes you played assigned key note and range. By now you'd 
think the damned machine would be capable of analysing the pitch of 
the sample and automatically assigning it to the correct note, 
instead of this laborious process - and yes I've got key commands for 
all the zone moving features.

The EXS has got some impressive features, but being quick to  create 
new instruments isn't one of them. Regards Brian (OS 9.2.2. Logic 
6.3.1)