EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

First of all: everyone who replied: thanks a lot for your input & ideas.


><dirk-hq@...> wrote:
>>  try AwaveStudio from http://www.fmjsoft.com, it is a kind of swiss-knife
>for many kinds of soundfiles. And they have a shareware-version, wich does
>everything(only one file and than start it new for the next).
>
>I would have suggested exactly the same.
>Just res-hacking or renaming some .sf to .sf2 usually won't result in big
>pleasure...

Even simpler: type/creator are not relevant at all.  Downloaded sf2 
files appear as plain text files, and are converted fine.  This one 
.sf file is plain text as well, and isn't seen by the EXS.  Changing 
the extension to sf2 doesn't help (hey, I'm not _that_ dumb -- I 
_had_ tried the most obvious approaches first :).

So I downloaded Awave.  Next Virtual PC (or Windows) complains that 
there are too many open 16-bit files -- "please quite some 16 bit 
programs or increase the FILES line in config.sys".  Since there's 
nothing to quit, I add a line "FILES = 32" to config.sys.  Still the 
same complaint.  Then changed this line into "FILES = 256".  Now the 
installer seems to launch, resulting in a hard crash, which is 
reported to be caused by Explorer (which isn't running at all)??? 
Ctrl-alt-del to reset the PC...  And out of ideas...

Gosh, how I hate PCs, really...  It's probably just me, but all too 
often I seem to run into stuff like this when using the PC...

>Also, most likely I wouldn't even bother with .sf at all. Over the past I
>have been downloading tons of them, just to find out that I never even used
>a single one. And no, I ain't Mr. Golden Ears - those sounds were just too
>lousy though.

Well... I don't exactly agree...  Haven't used many soundfonts yet -- 
actually just downloaded the 1st five last week -- but there are some 
nice ones imo (and some mediocre as well, agreed). The one I'm trying 
to convert is a very complete pipe organ, which I'd *LOVE* to give a 
try -- got rather high ratings at the download site.

If anyone has any ideas left...


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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>

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