EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Mike Newman wrote:
> I'll be using Logic and EXS24 for the first time with the release of
> Logic 6.  I have a Dual GIG G4 with 1.5 GIG Ram and two 80 GIG hard
> drives. I have about 50 GIG worth of Sample CD-ROMs and will be using
> the  Vienna Symphonic Library EXS24 Edition Complete Orchestral
> Package when it's released next month.

LUCKY!!! ;-)

> I was wondering if I should partition the two 80 GIG hard drives and
> if so what is the best way to set them up for EXS24?

Here's the deal: partitioning a drive is not really going to help you 
(as far as I know/have been able to tell by playing around) when it 
comes to playing samples/bounding audio.  In fact, partitioning a drive 
could exasperate the problem.

What you want to do is make sure that each part of your workflow that 
requires harddrive access has it's own drive (and, ideally, it's own 
bus, though that's not really as important with reasonably low-bandwidth 
samples).

The average EXS24 setup has three parts that require drive access. 
There's the part that runs the OS and loads the actual Logic and EXS24 
software.  There's the part that loads samples.  Then there's the part 
the loads/writes/ the song.

It sounds as though you have two internal 80Gig drives, right?  Here's 
what you should do.  Install Logic on the same drive that has your 
operating system on it.  Install all your samples onto the other drive. 
  Then buy a fast firewire drive, plug it into you computer, and save 
your  song files there.

You could, if space is a problem, put your samples on the firewire drive 
and your songs on the second internal 80Gig.  The important thing here 
is that the song file and the sample files are not on the same bus (that 
is to say, you would not want both on firewire drives or both on 
internal drives.  You want to split them between them so that they can 
read/write asynchronously).

I think that the reasons for this are fairly obvious, but if you would 
like clarification, please ask.

Also, others here may have better suggestions.  I've never worked with a 
sample library over a Gig, so your mileage may vary.

Cheers,
-Josh Emmons