EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

jcmusicsg wrote:
> What would you sugest, I can put the EXS sample folder on my master
> program drive, or, on my other drive thats on a seperate PCI IDE
> controller card, they both have a lot of spare room.

Hi Allan,
As said before, in general this is totally up to you. If you, for example,
move your samples around a lot manually (in explorer/finder that is, for
whatever reason) I would put them on the smallest drive and specify that one
in the EXS's preferences => will decrease searching time.
If you however make use of the EXS's VSM function, I would eventually put
them on your fastest drive. But again this may depend on your style of
working. In case you're using a lot of audio tracks and large EXS patches as
well it might be a better idea to run them from independent drives.
Personally I am using the EXS in VSM mode (set to "medium", unfortunately
that's a global setting, I wish it was on a per song base) and I'm storing
all my samples on the first partition of my audio drive. This is working
very well for me, I can run a lot of audio tracks (actually as much as I
want) and am still getting pretty good EXS performance.
To me it seems that in times of fast computers and harddrives you really
don't have to care about these things too much anymore in terms of
performance, it's all up to your personal preferences. For me it's just
important to have all my regularly used samples (for the EXS, HALion,.
DR-008 and Battery) in one common place that I will never forget to back up
properly.

Regards,
Sascha