EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I try to manage my instrument folders. I've still noticed problems with 
aliases but had'nt took time enough to deal with, what I've finally 
done today (tricky job ! ). So if at the end I now understand what 
happens, I don't find any solution :

It's certainly not of the biggest importance but the solution (if any) 
or correction of that problem could be helpfull, quite more for big 
collections of instruments :
EXS24 don't recognize aliases of instrument files. So for the purpose 
of organization of the instrument folder (as an example : an african 
log drum can be considered as - let's say - "percussion" and, at the 
same time, "african", or "ethnic") I thought to use aliases of folders 
that EXS seems to recognize  but :
actually when choosing an instrument  in the pop up menu of EXS24 
plugin, only the first item (found alphabetically in the list, 
according to the ASCII code I presume) of the folder (alias or 
original), can be opened. I made a lot of tests with the same result, 
so I try to give an easy to reproduce example which would be more 
understandable (I hope so) :

For trial, you can create a (smartly named) folder "Trial" in the 
Instrument folder (so easy to remove), in which you create 4 different 
folders  :
1-Folder
2-Folder
3-Folder
and 4-Aliases
In that fourth folder, put aliases of the three other ones in which you 
would have copy at least one ESX instrument file (not the alias), no 
matter which, just for the folder to be seen in the menu.

In the EXS plug in, refresh the instrument menu first and open each 
folder within that "Trial" folder : you will see the instrument(s) in 
each of the first 3 folders, but in the fourth one, aliases will only 
show the grey name of the 3 other folders instead of open and  show the 
instrument(s) inside.

Well then rename "3-Folder" in "4-Folder" what will make it swap with 
"4-Alias" in the window list (if display is not with icons), and  in 
the pop up Instrument menu of EXS plug in (after refreshing menu).
If you try to open an instrument now, the 2 first folders will still 
show their instrument(s), the 3d one (which is now named "3-Aliases") 
will still show the same grey name for folders 1 and 2 but will then 
show instruments inside "3- Folder" alias, but so the  "3-Folder" 
itself (now at 4th place)  will no longer show its instruments.

If you lift the folder "Alias" up in the list (by renaming it 
"2-Aliases" and then "1-Aliases"), the changing will continue the same 
manner, and at the end, when "1-Alias" will be the first of the list, 
the 3 folder aliases it contains will show their instruments, but the 
original folders no longer will do so.
That's to say that only the first of each folder found alphabetically 
in the list (no matter alias or original) will open and show its 
instruments.

I hope it had been clear enough, sorry for to be long.

  I've test in Logic Pro 6.4 and 7.01 with exactly the same result, but 
perheaps had it been still corrected in L7.1 ?. Or is it another way to 
do the job ?
If no correction done, I think it may be a good idea to send to 
Emapple, but it's probably better to have other users advice first.
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Gérald RYCKEBOER
ryckeboerg@...