EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I have downloaded the marvelous and free Concert Grand Piano gigasampler (http://
exce.ath.cx/~route909/) and converted it for EXS24. It's about 900 Mb of RAM ! (8 
velocity layers, wow !).

My computer has 1 Gb of RAM. So I guess it's just not enough to contain the samples. 
I'm runing Mac OS X 10.2.6 and Logic 6.2.1.

What's weird is that I get terrible cracks everytime I play a note that has not been 
played before. When re-playing the same note, the sound is OK. It's like the EXS has 
not all samples in memory and need to look for them on hard disk when a note is 
played. Using EXS's virtual memory does not change a damn thing.

>
> What's weird is that I get terrible cracks everytime I play a note 
> that has not been
> played before. When re-playing the same note, the sound is OK. It's 
> like the EXS has
> not all samples in memory and need to look for them on hard disk when 
> a note is
> played. Using EXS's virtual memory does not change a damn thing.

I think that is exactly what is going on.  I have a similar thing that 
happens when I open songs with bunches of EXS instances containing 
large programs.  It acts like it has to find every note.

On the piano issue.  Make a smaller program.  Not so many velocity 
layers for input.  My experience is that playback will work fine when 
you switch to the larger program.

julie

Julie Larson
www.julielarson.net



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

On 22/09/03 21:45, "frederichahn" <frederichahn@...> wrote:

> I have downloaded the marvelous and free Concert Grand Piano gigasampler
> (http://exce.ath.cx/~route909/) and converted it for EXS24. It's about 900 Mb
of RAM ! 
> (8 
> velocity layers, wow !).
> 
> My computer has 1 Gb of RAM. So I guess it's just not enough to contain the
> samples. 
> I'm runing Mac OS X 10.2.6 and Logic 6.2.1.
> 
> What's weird is that I get terrible cracks everytime I play a note that has
> not been 
> played before. When re-playing the same note, the sound is OK. It's like the
> EXS has 
> not all samples in memory and need to look for them on hard disk when a note
> is 
> played. Using EXS's virtual memory does not change a damn thing.
What audio interface are you using on what computer ?


Best regards
 
Cyril Blanc
France

If you want to be sure I read your answer leave my name in it !
Spam mails are directly going to trash

frederichahn wrote: I have downloaded the marvelous and free Concert Grand Piano gigasampler(http://exce.ath.cx/~route909/).

The link doesn´t work here, I´d like to download it as well so could you please send the right link.
Henrik Krogh
henrikkrogh@...


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

http://exce.ath.cx/~route909/

Try that (with no bracket at end)

> frederichahn wrote: I have downloaded the marvelous and free Concert Grand
> Piano gigasampler(http://exce.ath.cx/~route909/).
> 
> The link doesn´t work here, I´d like to download it as well so could you
> please send the right link.
> Henrik Krogh
> henrikkrogh@...

frederichahn@... wrote: 

>
> My computer has 1 Gb of RAM. So I guess it's just not enough to contain the
> samples. 
> I'm runing Mac OS X 10.2.6 and Logic 6.2.1.
>
> What's weird is that I get terrible cracks everytime I play a note that has
> not been 
> played before. When re-playing the same note, the sound is OK. It's like the
> EXS has 
> not all samples in memory and need to look for them on hard disk when a note
> is 
> played. Using EXS's virtual memory does not change a damn thing.


With Logic PC this is how the EXS24 behaves when virtual memory is not active
or there is insufficient buffering:  -- notes you haven't played yet are in the
OS swap file. Play them and they load into memory so that there are no problems
next time you hit that key.

I would try to ascertain whether virtual memory is working properly and if the
answer is yes then 
 try adjusting the EXS24's parameters for virtual memory to get the maximum
amount of buffering of the piano samples.

Regards,
Murray

Does anyone know how to unpack sfpack files on the Mac?
Don


on 9/22/03 12:45 PM, frederichahn at frederichahn@... wrote:

> I have downloaded the marvelous and free Concert Grand Piano gigasampler
> (http://
> exce.ath.cx/~route909/) and converted it for EXS24. It's about 900 Mb of RAM !
> (8 
> velocity layers, wow !).
> 
> My computer has 1 Gb of RAM. So I guess it's just not enough to contain the
> samples. 
> I'm runing Mac OS X 10.2.6 and Logic 6.2.1.
> 
> What's weird is that I get terrible cracks everytime I play a note that has
> not been 
> played before. When re-playing the same note, the sound is OK. It's like the
> EXS has 
> not all samples in memory and need to look for them on hard disk when a note
> is 
> played. Using EXS's virtual memory does not change a damn thing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ____________________________________________________________
>                     EXS* Users Group
> - EXS/Logic FAQ: http://logicfaq.omega-art.com/
> - UNSUBSCRIBE: email exs-users-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
> - Contact list admin: email exs-users-owner@yahoogroups.com
> - Free legal samples: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exs-users/links/
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> 
> 
> 
>

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 09:41 PM, exs-users@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

> Subject: Re: Maestro Concert Grand Piano / Logic Mac OS X
>
> Does anyone know how to unpack sfpack files on the Mac?
> Don
>

Try sfArkXT for Mac OSX
http://www.melodymachine.com/

Martin Karlegård
Songwriter and Producer
http://www.kbrosmusic.com


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

on 9/23/03 3:38 PM, Martin Karlegard at mardyk@... wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 09:41 PM, exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> wrote:
> 
>> Subject: Re: Maestro Concert Grand Piano / Logic Mac OS X
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to unpack sfpack files on the Mac?
>> Don
>> 
> 
> Try sfArkXT for Mac OSX
> http://www.melodymachine.com/
> 

OK, I tried that, and got a message saying "This does not appear to be an
sfArk file. Decompression incomplete."

Don