EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Andy Hardwake wrote:
> I may well be missing something, but there's only a choice between
> internal, external and all drives in L6/L7 OS 9/X. How can you choose a
> specific drive to search? Is it a PC only thing? Just curious.

Hi Andy,

To be honest, I don't exactly remember. The only Mac version I'm
occasionally working with is V6 in the university - I seem to remember there
was an option to select a specific drive too, but I may as well be wrong.
On Windows there's a "Search samples on" entry which will show the options
you mentioned, plus each existing partition being listed separately as well.
In case I had to reorganize my samples (which basically, apart from a few
songbased patches, are on one partition only) this remarkably was speeding
up the process.

Btw, I don't know how well program manager is doing the job (from what I
remember it's ultimatively slow), so there's still the good old "manual" way
of reassigning things.
- Open the EXS preferences
- Set up a MIDI command to switch to "next instrument", say PrgChange 1
- Create a sequence and insert an appropriate PrgChange
- Select the very first program in your list
- Have Logic running in a cycle - you can do that overnight

Problem with this method: Once there's a patch Logic can't find the
appropriate samples for, it will stop and ask for a confirmation. So before
you leave it running without watching, you need to make sure ALL your
samples are indeed there (which sometimes is sort of impossible...).
The good thing with this method: Logic is caching the last used path, once
it found proper samples, so the next search will be way quicker.
The VERY bad (TM) thing about this method: Should the EXS find more than 3
samples named the same it will still only offer 3 options - in case the
correct sample isn't among them you are fucked (sorry for the word, but
that's just it).
I seriously can't believe the EXS's search function still hasn't been
updated during all these years - has been the very first report I ever made
about it.... couldn't be any worse.

- Sascha