EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

<uswitalski@...> wrote:
> ... just as a reminder (and i know i am repeating myself, but knowing this
> fact really helped me a lot), when you all are moving and renaming and
> aliasing files of the exs you will loose _a lot_ of its load speed. once
you
> moved, renamed and whatnot-ed the files you will have to load each of your
> instruments for the exs to update the initial filepath it searches. so
> depending on how big your library is it should be thought of before
> reorganizing files.

As sad as it is: Reorganizing files under LAW is almost no issue. The EXS
will relocate its samples for all my patches (around 4500) in 2 hours, using
the "original Andrea Gozzi trick" (setting up a sequence doing the "next"
patch job).
Let alone that there is the brilliant EXS manager (again by A.Gozzi).

Mac users apparently suffer WAY more whenever they're reorganizing their
files.
Using aliases has no impact on the EXS speed on Windows either, it's just
loading patches almost as instant as a hardware device, if not faster.

A lot of these things apparently have to do with LAM (or the EXS) not
caching any file directories or whatever. Under Windows, for example, the
last used filepath is cached, so if the EXS needs to "refind" a second bunch
of samples it will start straight at the place it located the previous
patch's samples which makes the whole process a LOT faster.

Just recently I've been at a friend's place, he's got a (wellconfigured it
seems) DP 1GHz Mac and it was truly dissapointing to see the EXS instrument
menu being as slow as on a P133 with 32MB of RAM or so. The same was true
vice versa, when he was over at my place he was simply amazed about HOW fast
the EXS would load its patches. FWIW, we have around the same amount of
patches.

But well, we're moving on to the superior OS, aren't we? Sorry, couldn't
resist...

Sascha
(now concentrating on the x-mas/family deal, actually a very nice thing, see
you folks in a few days)