EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> i also noticed that after importing a complete
    > akai cd the loadtime is much reduced. after i
    > moved the samples and .exs files into apropriate
    > folders things are back to slowmotion again.
    > refreshing, reloading doesnt change it.

The reason they load faster when you initially convert them is because the
EXS files point directly to the audio files, therefore the EXS just loads
the audio files fairly quickly.

If you move the audio files, then when the EXS loads the .exs file, it goes
to load the first sample and doesn't find it. Rather than reporting "file
not found", the EXS then goes away and searches your hard drives for the
correct file, and it does this for each audio file that it can't find, and
it's this that takes a while.

Once it has found the correct samples, it rewrites this new location back to
the EXS file so the next time it is loaded, a search will not have to be
done.

So the moral is: convert the audio files to the actual destination you will
put them, or use EXS Manager (PC) to bulk update the sample locations of
your exs instruments.

Ben Hall
www.benhall.co.uk