EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 11:22 PM 4/22/03 +0200, you wrote:

>Sounds are not supposed to be compatible with OS9 specifically. Windows
>supports long names and 27 characters is just enought to give a name to the
>numerous articulations and possibilities.
>Any developer should not bark against the OS, Microsoft, Apple or anyone
>else, but handle every cases.

Right, but the EXS convertor doesn't. That was the point.

>If tomorrow a soundbank uses 90 characters for names, do you plan to 
>release a new version?

Are you referring to Emagic?

>Do you manage Unicode, MBCS, ASCII? What will happen if a soundbank has
>Russian or Arabic names? These are questions your need to ask yourself
>before selling, otherwise your product will crash on NT or XP or Win95 or
>MAC...or both...

All formats deal with ASCii, and in extreme cases, the extended 127-255 
ASCii as well. I know of no FORMAT that supports anything else.

>>"We had been on a mission to educate the developers not to exceed 27 chars "

>Really? Why not programming all the soundbanks with 8 chars names

I agree with you in theory. But in the real world, with free native 
convertors that don't handle the character issue correctly, it's not in the 
developers best interest to tell their customers that they have to buy 
something else in order to get their Giga library to work on their 
instrument. They look for the "out of the box" thing, of course.

>so it will be compatible with the new upcoming DOS version of your software?

A DOS version of Logic? Been there, done that. =)

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User