EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

sorry if i can't help you, other than telling that the PM _ALLWAYS_ freezes
my mac. and there for i cant use it at all.
from what i read here and elsewhere i guess i am missing some nice
functions. 
but the way the PM looks and feels on OS 9 its just not finished and
rediculus for a professional software in 2003.

doing a scan, some 30 minutes later it will just lock up my mac in the
middle of the process.

too bad.

but i am hoping someone knows a fix so i get this beast to work for me, as
it seems to do for everyone else (almost).

cheers,
ulf.





> I posted this at the LUG, but nobody heard me. Just putting it here
> to see if I can get some help.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Hi gang,
> I am getting the weirdest behavior in the project manager.
> 
> My file structure is such. I have 3 physical drives.
> One holds my OS and logic. It's divided into 3 partitions: 10gig for
> os 9.22, 10gig for os 10.2.6 and 35gig for storage.
> The other two are 120gig drives, one holding my vocals, and the other
> stores my samples. (exs, stylus, sampletank, etc.)
> 
> So last night I decided that I was going to do some maintenance and
> file management, since i have a best friend who has no idea what a
> file structure is.... (put the vocals on the vocal drive inside a
> dedicated folder please!)
> 
> Anyway as I was scanning my EXSamples directory (absolutely huge,
> mostly giga and soundfont samples) and PM froze. So I rebooted the
> computer and tried again. So i noticed that it was happening in the
> same vicinity of the file structure. So I began to do some folder
> scans. To make a long story short, there is a particular folder
> within my EXSamples folder that has about 600 some-odd folders within
> it. (it's called Old Soundfonts). When I scanned that folder, PM
> crashed upon reaching a folder called "ELECTRONIC DRUMS" (caps
> intentional). So, being the inquisitive jackoff I am :) I removed the
> folder to another physical drive and tried again (after rebooting).
> And whaddya know, It crashed again, but this time upon reaching the
> next heirarchichal subfolder, which is, appropriately
> enough, "Electronic Drumset". So I removed this folder and... well
> you get the point. All told, I applied this process four times with
> identical results, and every time PM crashed on the next folder.
> 
> I am at a total loss. Also, in the past, when I tried to scan the
> Sampler Instruments folder, PM would crash midway through the drums
> subfolder. But I never really took notice, I just worked around it,
> but I thought I would mention it.
> 
> As I am pretty confident that PM is not biased against the TR808 and
> 909 (and 606 and CR78......) I am totally mistified by this
> occurence. And I know its not the number of folders within the
> directory because I have other directories with more subfolders and
> samples, (one called Soundfonts and the other, Giga) that scan just
> fine.
> 
> Anyhow, this is a big mess since I am always rearranging my file
> structure (at least once per quarter) and exs is always looking for
> files.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> G4733 Quicksilver
> OS 9.22, 10.2.6
> Logic 6.1.0 running on 9.22
> 300GB HDD space
> 640MB RAM
> Delta 66/Omni Studio
> OASYS PCI
> NVidia Geforce4 Dual head
> etc
> etc
> etc
> 
> (BTW The 3 drives are connected to the internal busses on the
> motherboard. I had a SIIG RAID card (ATA/133) but it was causing
> clicks and distortion with my Delta66. The system drive is slaved to
> the burner. The vocal drive is slaved to the sample drive)