EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> On 14.03.2007, at 23:22, Donovan R. wrote:
> 
I realize it's a very good thing to keep samples assoiciated to the
correct instrument, which EXS manager seems to excel at,
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Peter wrote:
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> The program is great and counts as "essential" for EXS users. I am  
> pretty sure that once you got used to you cannot imagine that people  
> organize their stuff without it.
> 
> __
> Peter Ostry

Peter,
Thanks to your informative and encouraging remarks, I have tackled the program in 
earnest and verified all that you said in the process.  I processed my Emu library 
surprisingly quickly to seek out "clones" (even checking the entire sample file, BTW rather 
than just the first 60,000 samples) and had the culprits (for me) moved to the trash.  I 
have the "primaries" so there is probably no harm in deleting the clones.  This has put an 
end to the annoying messages I was getting constantly (when I would load an instrument 
from this collection) to the effect that there were identical samples lurking, etc.  Now, 
loading is practically instantaneous.

One thing that troubles me a little is the many megabytes of "unused" samples which exist 
despite the fact that all 20,000 plus instuments are now "complete," despite a significant 
incidence of "weak references."  I had EXS mgr. move these orphan samples to an "aux" 
file.  I spot checked here and there and was unable to find an instrument which was 
noticably suffering missing samples. 

I attribute the detachment of these samples not to EXS manager, which has merely 
reported them, but perhaps to CDXract or even the original Emu CD's.  I'm grateful for its 
existence, however CDxtract seems to have "demapped" my Emu drumkits and just broke 
the individual samples out as it they were separate instruments, so maybe I'll get "Keymap" 
to expedite reassembling them.  Something has been lost in translation here and there, I 
guess, but at this point, I'm moving on from that project.  I have a much more accessible 
collection now, in any event.  I can always resort to using the hardware if things seem 
amiss.

Also, thanks to Andrea at Redmatica for the invitation to query Redmatica support.