EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

>
> I would like to be able to keep some EXS instruments in more
> than one folder (within the Sampler Instruments folder), for example 
> if the
> instrument can be categorized in more than one way. However this gets
> unwieldy if actual file copies are used for this purpose-- because1) 
> It creates
> unnecessary file duplicates, and 2) if one copy of an instrument gets 
> edited
> and saved then the other copy won't reflect these changes. so it causes
> confusion.
>
> Aliases of the instruments would solve this problem quite elegantly, 
> but when
> I make aliases, I can't seem to get them to appear in the instrument 
> list. EXS
> doesn't seem to recognize them as legitimate files. It appears that 
> one can
> only alias the Sampler Instruments folder as a whole, but not anything 
> below
> that in the structural heirarchy, because EXS simply won't see it. Am 
> I doing
> something wrong, or is simply not possible? If it isn't possible then 
> I'd like to
> express to emagic that this functionality needs to be added!

Hello all, hello Dan

I'm rather new on the list although not new with Logic and EXS24 ; as I 
play mainly traditional music (on the pipes), I don't work so much with 
EXS24 and I have certainly still a lot to learn here, but I can answer 
on that point ;-)

As far as I know, EXS24 don't recognize aliases of .exs files, BUT 
recognizes aliases of folders, even for the "Sampler Instruments" one 
(but I don't remember if all previous versions do it for this folder : 
I work now with Platinum 6.3.2 on Panther).
I store the "Sampler Instruments" in my document folder and just let an 
alias of it in the Logic folder. This avoid to lost my own exs 
instruments when installing a new version or reinstalling in a new 
computer (what happenned, so I tryed that way).
I do also the same for the "PlugIns settings" folder.

Cheers
---
Gérald Ryckeboer

> As far as I know, EXS24 don't recognize aliases of .exs files, BUT 
> recognizes aliases of folders, even for the "Sampler Instruments" one 
> (but I don't remember if all previous versions do it for this folder : 
> I work now with Platinum 6.3.2 on Panther).
> I store the "Sampler Instruments" in my document folder and just let an 
> alias of it in the Logic folder. This avoid to lost my own exs 
> instruments when installing a new version or reinstalling in a new 
> computer (what happenned, so I tryed that way).
> I do also the same for the "PlugIns settings" folder.
> 

Yes, I know it will see an alias of the master folder ("Sampler Instruments"), 
and in fact I do use that feature so I don't have to keep my samples on my 
boot drive... but that's not the issue. The issue is being able to assign 
instruments to more than one subcategory (folder or subfolder) such that, 
when you make any changes to one version of it, the other changes as well. 
The only way I know of to accomplish that would be with aliases, and frankly I 
am mystified as to why this feature is not implemented....

-Dan