EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Ben Hall wrote:
> 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.

Amen!
This post should be kept somewhere for future reference as it describes
exactly what's happening (and lots of people are asking the very same
question).

And finally, if you aren't on PC, therefor can't use the (brilliant) EXS
Manager, here's how to "batch-load" all patches once, in order to have way
faster loading times in the future:
- Get yourself a tool searching for file clones. Should of course search for
names and file size/content. On Windows there's CloneSpy, I bet there's
something like that for Macs as well.
- Got to the EXS instrument editor, under "Edit > Preferences" setup a
command for "next patch", say "PrgChange 01".
- Create a sequence containing that very command.
- Set a cycle around that sequence.
- Go have a day at the beach or so, this will take a while now. When you'll
be back all your patches should load fast.

Regards,
Sascha