EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:53 AM 4/30/2005 -0400, you wrote:

>I found a free soundfont online with the suffix "sfpack".
>When I put it in the Sampler Instruments folder, the EXS wouldn't "see"
>it.
>I changed the suffix to sf2 and the EXS could "see" it but not open it.
>Is this "sfpack" format compatible?

Before I answer - so your name is Thomas Hammer? Ha! Go to hammersound.net 
- probably the most significant soundfont site on the Web, run by a guy 
named Thomas Hammer. Small world!

You have to "unpack" it with a program called SFPack. You can get it on 
hammersound.net, look for it in the FAQ. it is Windows only though - if you 
only have a Mac (horrors!) send it to me or refer the link to me and I'll 
decompress it for you.

SFPack and another related one were compression utilities that seemed to be 
necessary at the time, before RAR and other ones came out that did a more 
effective job at compression than ZIP. They are obsolete now, and I wish 
the sites would eliminate .sfpack files and reload them as .rar.



Garth Hjelte
Sampler User