EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 12:14 PM 7/5/03 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi guys !
>Just some hours ago ,my friend came with some cool sample cds.
>One of the what we loved most to use in our music is in CDDA
>format.
>
>As u know with AKAI cds its more easely,u just import AKAI into
>EXS24 and thats it.
>
>But with wav u have to create ur own instruments.
>I would like to move whole cd to my sound drive and just create in
>Logics dir the exs files,but i can't.
>
>So what iam asking is if there any other way to manage wav samples
>from sample cd or i just have to create all by hand?

First you'll have to "rip" the samples off the Audio CD. Rippers are 
available everywhere, just like funny things are everywhere (Dr. Suess). 
ITunes for Mac, Windows Media Player PC. Linux?

Once there are in WAV or AIFF format...

EXS has a nice feature call "Load multiple samples."

Crate a new Instrument in the Editor
Click Zone-Load Multiple samples
Choose your samples
It then gives you a choice how to map them
   AutoMap, Drums, Chromatic, the dialog tells you what each does
You will wind up with an .exs instrument with those samples mapped in some 
form across the keyboard.

My company's Translator program also does this and offers more features 
besides that. One that is especially helpful in your case  is the "split" 
function. YOu will notice that your Audio CD only has 99 tracks, and each 
track likely has multiple samples on it. Translator's function splits each 
sample into it's separate file, so instead of having 5-6 (whatever) samples 
per file, you have one sample per file, which is what you want. YOu can set 
threshold and time parameters to get it just how you want.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User