EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@y..., "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@s...> wrote:
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

Many thanks Sascha,
What I did was, I took out the EXS sample folder from Logic and put 
it on a seperate partition on a drive that is on my PCI ide 
controller card, and then did a short cut which I put into the Logics 
folder. The EXS24 found the samples O\k.
Once again, many thanks, keep up the good work.
Allan.