EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

<uswitalski@... wrote:
> the exs has been "scanning" all weekend thru on a 15 second cycle loading
> "next instrument" ... and is still ongoing. (about half way thru)

Ouch! This seems to be a very long time to me. On Windows the EXS caches the
last sample location, so, if you have your samples say under
"Samples\EXS\Patches" and there's several "Samples\EXS\Patches\XYZ"
directories, it will only use the parent directory to start the search as
long as it doesn't have to jump to a completely different location on your
harddisc.
Ah well, you may just have an enormous amount of patches...

> and emagic: "thats, NOT nice, to make one think it might be ok to move
> things arround when it results in slooooow sample load, tzz tzz"

Well, IMO this is normal behaviour. And believe me, things don't go ANY
better with other softsamplers as none of them has any automatic search
function at all. Manually moving samples allways results in additional
re-allocating, be it through automatic search schemes (EXS) or by manually
entering some search path (HALion, Kontakt).
Maybe not that you are through with half of your patches you could just
continue working as usual, some EXS patches will still need a while to load
while others will be there fast.

Regards,
Sascha