EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

OK. I have a pretty serious gripe about the EXS (Emagic, are you
listening?), although I remain a fan for the time being (I should mention
though that I'm impressed with the Power of Halion and it's ability to
flawlessly translate Soundfonts which are plentiful on the net.).

I'm very unimpressed with the fact that aliased EXS instruments do not
appear in the drop list. I spent a great deal of time organizing my library
last night, grouping drums in a highly organized fashion. I find it a
timesaver to keep instruments consisting entirely of one type of drum in a
folder. This is not possible on extremely large kits such as my 909X without
separating the instruments tied to a single sample collection which are
kicks, snares, toms, etc. respectively. What I mean to say is, I don't want
to move the "kicks" EXS instrument (for example) to the All Kicks folder,
because then it won't reside with the samples that are related. My witty
answer was to create an alias for the "kicks" residing in the 909 folder and
drop it in the All Kicks folder. Imagine my disappointment when the many
instruments I did this with did not function as I assumed they would. I
thought, perhaps I can trick Logic. I viewed the file/creator codes for the
aliases and they matched the originals. So now I'm left wondering what
criteria Emagic uses to decide with are valid EXS instruments and which are
not. To sum it up, I'm deeply disappointed that this method of organization
can not be done easily. What a drag. It seems this would be very easy to
mend in the next minor update. -Jer
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Apple PowerBook G3 400Mhz
Mac OS 9.04
Logic Audio Platinum 4.7
384 MB of Ram (50MB dedicated to Logic)
Digigram VX Pocket sound card (driver 2.6.0)
Opcode MIDIport 32 with OMS 2.3.8
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Jer Olsen, President
Global Express Media LLC
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