EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 09:34 AM 4/20/2003 +0200, you wrote:

> >(Is there a FAQ for EXS?)
>
>There's a Logic FAQ (in development) at
><http://www.omega-art.com/logic/faq/.>http://www.omega-art.com/logic/faq/. 
>Clearly EXS related stuff
>belongs there as well.  I've marked theabove msg to be included in
>the FAQ (which will be updated once I have some time to get at it).
>For the record: I suppose the above pertains to *akai* mixed mode
>CD's, right?

As far as just the EXS goes, Akai is only relevant. But it applies to any 
mixed-mode CD paired with a proprietary format, specifically Akai, Roland, 
Emu, Ensoniq, Kurzweil, Yamaha, a few others, in regards to programs that 
can read them.

The specific problem is that the 1.4 CD/DVD Driver, once it sees the Audio 
portion (which physically comes first), it fails to report any other track 
to the OS, thus it is unavailable to be accessed programmatically. The use 
can see that (when not in EXS or other) by noticing that you don't get the 
eject/init dialog, even though it's an Akai CD, whereas normal Akai CD's 
get it.

The 1.3 drivers report other tracks to the OS, making them available to 
programs.

Since this is a Mac problem, it affects every Mac OS8/9 program that seeks 
to read Akai/proprietary CD's. I know of no way around it, except to writer 
something very unnecessarily complicated, like a very low-level driver that 
essentially replaces the CD/DVD Driver. And even maybe that won't work.

Thanks for the FAQ!

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User


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