EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 17.03.2007, at 18:20, Donovan Rundle wrote:

> Thanks to your informative and encouraging remarks, I have tackled  
> the program in
> earnest and verified all that you said in the process.

That at least proves that I don't tell nonsense the whole day. Half  
of the day, perhaps.


> 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.

Moving them to a separate place was a good idea. I know of four  
reasons for orphaned samples.

1 - There is (or was) an instrument somewhere, which EXS manager  
doesn't see and the samples belong to that instrument.

2 - The samples originally belonged to one of your used instrument  
but are actually not used and not linked in the original instrument  
file. Some developers don't delete individual samples after they  
decided not to use them.

3 - The samples belong to a library you have but do not belong to an  
instrument because they are for special usage.

4 - The samples are from somewhere else (CD, etc) and don't belong to  
an instrument. They are probably not even that type of samples but  
other audio files.

20,000 instruments? Wow. Didn't kow that the EXS can handle that  
many. Must take days to find a sound.


> 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.

Yeah, something like that. If the names can't, the sounds of the  
samples might give you a clue about their origin.


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Peter Ostry