EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hello,
i just noticed this thread and would like to comment a couple of things.

Aaron Rosenberg wrote:

> Hey EXS and EXSManager fans, I managed to send all of my
> Native Instruments WAV/AIFF files to a random directory and pull them
> out of their homes forcing me to install the libraries again.

You could have repaired your actions by using ExsManager built-in 
"Restore" function. Before any operation, a "snapshot" of your file 
locations is automatically saved (unless you disable it!) so that you 
can go back to the starting situation.


Peter Ostry wrote:

> ExsManager cannot move instruments except from sample directories to
> the one and only "Sample Instruments" directory you've set. If you have
> more than one instrument directory now, I think the additional ones
> were created during reinstallation of the libraries.
>
> The program cannot help you recreating instruments. It's job is to
> organize samples according to instruments. So you have to rebuild the
> instrument structure from scratch.

This ("It's job is to organize samples according to instruments") is 
partially true. But the trick here is to use the "move instruments out 
of sample dir" function to grab all .exs instruments from a volume or 
even the entire system, and move them to a single folder. Just ignore 
the samples for a moment:
-set SampleDir to where your "disorganized" .exs instruments are (can 
be a folder, volume, also all the system)
-set InstDir to where you want them all to be
-set "Instruments in SampleDir are" to "Moved to InstDir and relinked 
(using hierarchies)" in the "Instruments" tab
- analyze and process

At this point all the .exs files that previously were in the 
"SampleDir" folder/volume will be automagically moved inside your 
InstDir.
Be careful in not moving song projects' .exs files or garageband 
instruments in this way.


>  This is the time to rethink the
> organization....
> ....In ExsManager this structure allowes to select a single library 
> folder
> as instrument directory and a single folder as "aux dir" were the
> sample files go. For example if I want to rebuild the Old Lady, I set
> "Sampler Instruments/PMI/Old Lady" as instrument directory and "Sampler
> Library/PMI/Old Lady" as aux directory. I never lost control since I do
> it that way. And it is fast.

This is an acceptable method, but you can do it in a faster/simpler 
way. Once you have a satisfying instrument folder structure, you can:
- set InstDir to your whole Instrument Folder
- set SampleDir to your whole sample folder
- turn on Samples Reorganization to "Use InstDir structure in SampleDir"
- you might want to enable clone and unused processing too

Now every time you analyze and process, all samples inside SampleDir 
will be checked and automatically moved to their right folders, for all 
instruments  at once, so that you can add samples quite randomly and 
ExsManager will take care of everything. A click on "Clean" for the 
SampleDir after each processing will also remove the unused folders 
that you might have created when moving the disorganized  samples 
there.

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica