EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Can anyone please tell me where to keep the EXS24 instrument files so that they are 
loaded in the sampler list ??? Iam new to this thing !!!

Thanks

asaeed5000 wrote:

>Can anyone please tell me where to keep the EXS24 instrument files so that they are 
>loaded in the sampler list ??? Iam new to this thing !!!
>
>Thanks 
>

How about try that folder inside your Logic directory called Sampler 
Instruments?

Chris

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At 07:08 PM 09/24/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Can anyone please tell me where to keep the EXS24 instrument files so that 
>they are
>loaded in the sampler list ??? Iam new to this thing !!!
>
>Thanks


Sampler instruments must be kept in the "Sampler Instruments" folder or an 
alias of it. The samples themselves can be kept anywhere you wish.

>Sampler instruments must be kept in the "Sampler Instruments" >folder or an 
>alias of it. The samples themselves can be kept anywhere you wish. 


  I have a question about how to create an 'alias' in the sampler folder

  I tried to get that happenning without much success.

  Do I move my files 'ie' onto another hardrive - then create shortcuts (in the new drive position) and then cut(drag)  those shortcuts into the sampler folder within logic ??

On a fine day, 25-09-2003, lakeplacidblue wrote:

>  >Sampler instruments must be kept in the "Sampler Instruments" >folder or an
>>alias of it. The samples themselves can be kept anywhere you wish.
>
>
>   I have a question about how to create an 'alias' in the sampler folder
>
>   I tried to get that happenning without much success.
>
>   Do I move my files 'ie' onto another hardrive - then create 
>shortcuts (in the new drive position) and then cut(drag)  those 
>shortcuts into the sampler folder within logic ??

The Sampler Instruments folder itself can be an alias, or any file or 
folder therein can be an alias.  So you could have a folder "Sampler 
Instruments" on some other hard disk, and put an alias to that in the 
Logic application folder (instead of a real "Sampler Instruments" 
folder).  Or you could have folders like "EXS factory", "Xtreme 
Analog", etc, on some other hard disk, all containing EXS 
instruments, and you can then put aliasses to these folders in the 
Sampler Instruments Folder which is in the Logic application folder.

To quickly create an alias: in the Finder press Command-Option, and 
then drag the file or folder to the new destination: instead of 
moving the file, you'll create an alias.

I don't see why you would want to use aliasses though. 
EXS-instrument files are relatively small, so you might as well 
simply put them in the Sampler Instruments folder directly.  The 
samples themselves can go anywhere, like on a fast & big dedicated 
audio-drive.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/

Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>:

>I don't see why you would want to use aliasses though.
>EXS-instrument files are relatively small, so you might as well
>simply put them in the Sampler Instruments folder directly.  The
>samples themselves can go anywhere, like on a fast & big dedicated
>audio-drive.

I use aliases with the Vienna Symphonic Library for the convenience 
of having the entire library on one drive, programs and all. Not a 
rational thing, but it just seems easier having everything in one 
place.

>To quickly create an alias: in the Finder press Command-Option, and
>then drag the file or folder to the new destination: instead of
>moving the file, you'll create an alias.

Hey, you learn something new every day! I've always used command/M to 
make the alias; this saves the step of deleting the first alias if 
the destination folder is on a different drive.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

On 26/09/03 2:52, "Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:

> Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>:
> 
>> I don't see why you would want to use aliasses though.
>> EXS-instrument files are relatively small, so you might as well
>> simply put them in the Sampler Instruments folder directly.  The
>> samples themselves can go anywhere, like on a fast & big dedicated
>> audio-drive.
> 
> I use aliases with the Vienna Symphonic Library for the convenience
> of having the entire library on one drive, programs and all. Not a
> rational thing, but it just seems easier having everything in one
> place.
> 



Have you move to a G5 ?
How do VSL behaves ?


Best regards
 
Cyril Blanc
France

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On a fine day, 25-09-2003, Nick Batzdorf wrote:

>Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>:
>  >To quickly create an alias: in the Finder press Command-Option, and
>>then drag the file or folder to the new destination: instead of
>>moving the file, you'll create an alias.
>
>Hey, you learn something new every day! I've always used command/M to
>make the alias; this saves the step of deleting the first alias if
>the destination folder is on a different drive.

And if you make the alias in a different place than the destination 
(which you usually do :), the cmd-opt-drag doesn't add "alias" to the 
name and thus saves you from having to delete that on each and every 
alias.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/

>  > I use aliases with the Vienna Symphonic Library for the convenience
>>  of having the entire library on one drive, programs and all. Not a
>>  rational thing, but it just seems easier having everything in one
>  > place.

From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>

>Have you move to a G5 ?

Have I moved to a G5. No. There's no point before Panther is released 
to access all that memory, and even then I'm not in a rush. It's much 
cheaper to keep adding Windows machines at 1/3 the price if they're 
just going to sit there and play samples. My strategy is to use the 
Mac for loading extra stuff that individual projects require (and for 
sequencing and everything else, of course), and to keep the Windows 
machines loaded and ready to go. Right now I only have one Giga 
machine, but I plan to add a second one in the near future.

That's how I feel today, anyway. Maybe I'll change my mind tomorrow!

>How do VSL behaves ?

How does VSL behave. (My French is laughable - I'm not trying to 
insult you be correcting your English!)

VSL behaves very well on a dual gig G4. I can load the same amount of 
24-bit VSL into its 1.5 GB of RAM as I could load 16-bit VSL into my 
Giga machine when it had 1.5GB (now I have 2 GB, so it loads more). 
But you can run far more voices in EXS than in the present version of 
Giga. I get 180 stereo voices on the G4 off a single Firewire drive, 
vs. Giga's max 160 mono voices.

On the other hand, VSL isn't particularly polyphony-intensive.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

On 26/09/03 23:15, "Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:


> 
> VSL behaves very well on a dual gig G4. I can load the same amount of
> 24-bit VSL into its 1.5 GB of RAM as I could load 16-bit VSL into my
> Giga machine when it had 1.5GB (now I have 2 GB, so it loads more).
> But you can run far more voices in EXS than in the present version of
> Giga. I get 180 stereo voices on the G4 off a single Firewire drive,
> vs. Giga's max 160 mono voices.
> 
Hello,

This is very interesting !

How can you have a 24bit version ? ;o)))


Best regards
 
Cyril Blanc
France

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"Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:

>  > VSL behaves very well on a dual gig G4. I can load the same amount of
>>  24-bit VSL into its 1.5 GB of RAM as I could load 16-bit VSL into my
>>  Giga machine when it had 1.5GB (now I have 2 GB, so it loads more).
>>  But you can run far more voices in EXS than in the present version of
>>  Giga. I get 180 stereo voices on the G4 off a single Firewire drive,
>  > vs. Giga's max 160 mono voices.

From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>

>This is very interesting !
>How can you have a 24bit version ? ;o)))

Correction: the EXS version is 16 bits as well. I just looked at a 
file in SpectraFoo's bit scope. My apologies.

But between you and me and four walls, I really couldn't care less. 
Being able to load more of it into each computer is much more 
valuable to me than a microscopic difference in audio quality.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

On 27/09/03 20:42, "Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:

> "Nick Batzdorf" <recording@...> wrote:
> 
>>> VSL behaves very well on a dual gig G4. I can load the same amount of
>>>  24-bit VSL into its 1.5 GB of RAM as I could load 16-bit VSL into my
>>>  Giga machine when it had 1.5GB (now I have 2 GB, so it loads more).
>>>  But you can run far more voices in EXS than in the present version of
>>>  Giga. I get 180 stereo voices on the G4 off a single Firewire drive,
>>> vs. Giga's max 160 mono voices.
> 
> From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>
> 
>> This is very interesting !
>> How can you have a 24bit version ? ;o)))
> 
> Correction: the EXS version is 16 bits as well. I just looked at a
> file in SpectraFoo's bit scope. My apologies.
> 
> But between you and me and four walls, I really couldn't care less.
> Being able to load more of it into each computer is much more
> valuable to me than a microscopic difference in audio quality.

What PC do you use for Giga ? If you have a diagram of your installation, I
would love it, because I cannot yet figure out how is your setup.

How reliable is Giga on PC ? How many crashes a day or a week ?
Thanks in advance.

Best regards
 
Cyril Blanc
France

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En un mensaje con fecha 28/09/2003 1:54:19 Hora estándar de México, 
blanc.cyril@... escribe:

> How reliable is Giga on PC ? How many crashes a day or a week ?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 

No crashes since Win XP... IU use it every day without problems.


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From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>

>What PC do you use for Giga ?

As mainstream a machine as possible: P4 2.4 GHz, 2GB RAM, Windows XP, 
motherboard with Intel chipset. I bought it only for this purpose - 
my first Windows machine - and I plan on adding another one in the 
near future, depending on how things shake out with the G5s (which 
can access 8GB of memory, making the prospect of having it all on a 
single machine theoretically possible).

I'd be happy to give you more details off the list if you're really 
serious about taking the leap of faith.

>  If you have a diagram of your installation, I
>would love it, because I cannot yet figure out how is your setup.

I have a somewhat roundabout system, but this part of it is very 
simple. The Giga machine is simply an external sound module, with the 
eight TDIFs on its soundcard (a Tascam-branded PCI-822) going into 
the same digital mixer my Pro Tools audio interface is in. So I 
monitor the Giga outputs through the mixer, and then bus them into 
Pro Tools when I'm ready to mix. I also have the VSL Orchestral Cube 
in EXS format (on my main Mac), so the library is running on both 
machines.

Oh, and for clocking, I have a MOTU Digital Timepiece feeding word 
clock to the mixer, Superclock to the Pro Tools  system, S/PDIF to 
the Tascam PCI-822...and also ADAT sync to my mobile PowerBook rig, 
which is a MOTU 828 Firewire interface.

>How reliable is Giga on PC ? How many crashes a day or a week ?
>Thanks in advance.

It's 100% reliable. I leave the computer on and loaded, and it never 
crashes. But you have to get the right hardware, or this won't be 
your experience.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434