EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>
> Garth Hjelte wrote:
> > No, Emagic chose to make the EXS sample-finding scheme extremely annoyingly
> > simple. Actually, it sort of forces you to be disciplined, since having
> > multiple copies of the same sound isn't that good.
> 
"Sascha Franck" <S.Franck@g...> wrote:

> That's got to be the understatement of the month or so.
> To be honest, there's NO softsampler with a sample/patch archiving and searching 
scheme as lousy as the EXS. Even more amazing as
> this has been the case since the very first version came out.
> Once you got more than 3 samples of the same name and plan to reorganize your 
samples (or move them to another machine) you're
> asking for serious troubles as the lousy sample search "engine" wouldn't even allow you 
to manually point it to a sample as soon as
> the required sample isn't among the first three choices. In addition it's doing no CRC 
checks, so anything called "kick.wav" will be
> considered as a probably suitable sample.
> Really makes you think what's going on in Mr. Developers mind...
> 
> > You could use the Project Manager (free) to bail you out here, but it's
> > slow and may not enable you to do the things you want. You'd probably find
> > Redmatica's EXS Manager helpful www.redmatica.com
> 
> In case you really have loads of samples and reorganize them at least somewhat more or 
less often, the EXS Manager is indeed what
> you need.
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha
>

Ok thanks folks, I'll check it out!

E-Rick