EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 05:55 AM 5/14/03 +0000, you wrote:

>After having created a song in Logic on a Mac I'm trying to make
>the archives PC Compatible. This is proving to be hell. The Logic
>Song File is fine enough and the audio track can be found albeit
>manually. My real problem is the EXS24. I can't get the PC to put
>the samples back in order as the sample Instrument dictates.
>For example, I open logic in the PC and open the EXS. After I find
>the sampler instrument "909" I get a warning telling me that it
>can't find -909 Kick.aif-. So, I go into the edit window and double
>click on the -909 Kick.aif- selection window. Up pops the folder
>that contains all of the 909 kit samples and I select the needed
>sample. This process is fine for one sample but there has to be
>a better way...I still have the rest of the kit to finish this way
>multiplied by several kits. Does anybody know of a better way.
>When Logic was toted as cross platform I thought they meant
>that you could move seamlessly from one to the other...am I
>missing something?

It might be the same old same old problem of the paths being hardcoded into 
the .exs files. (Kontakt partially solves this problem, they allow relative 
paths - but that doesn't solve the Mac->PC issues, unless the samples are 
in the same folder as the .exs file).

Get the free EXS Manager fror PC that is written by Andrea Gozzi - go to
  www.arcanoise.com/ExsManager/Docs/ExsManager.html

This will neatly update all your .exs files to look for the right samples.

Translator also has a "Fix References" function which can update all your 
.exs files as well.

I'm sure that EXS does a good job at this sample finding thing, but the 
EXSManager and/or Translator will tell you exactly what the problem is, 
instead of just complaining that the sample can't be found.


Garth Hjelte
Sampler User