EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I noticed that it takes about 20 minutes to do what EXS24 takes 2-3 
hours to do when I use CDExtract (to import an entire Akai CD-ROM). It 
saves a lot of time, but I am wondering if there is a downside. Anyone 
have any opinions?

Colin

At 04:35 PM 12/15/04 -0800, you wrote:

>I noticed that it takes about 20 minutes to do what EXS24 takes 2-3
>hours to do when I use CDExtract (to import an entire Akai CD-ROM). It
>saves a lot of time, but I am wondering if there is a downside. Anyone
>have any opinions?

The conversion software's are niche experts at what they do, whereas any 
sampler company is busy doing their sampler engine and other things, and 
don't have the proper time to commit to do the job as well.

The only downside is $$$, but the upsides are better conversions almost 
always. In particular, you can choose where your samples go, while the EXS 
forces you to put them in a hard-coded place.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User

> From: Colin L Miller <logicuser@...>
> Reply-To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:35:13 -0800
> To: <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [EXS] Akai Importing
> 
> 
> I noticed that it takes about 20 minutes to do what EXS24 takes 2-3
> hours to do when I use CDExtract (to import an entire Akai CD-ROM). It
> saves a lot of time, but I am wondering if there is a downside. Anyone
> have any opinions?
> 
> Colin

CDXtract and Chicken System's Translator both work great for this.

James

James Ryan wrote:

>>Colin
> 
> 
> CDXtract and Chicken System's Translator both work great for this.
> 
> James

Thanks guys, I was just worries I was missing out on something since 
there was such a drastic difference between the two.

I got done importing a lot of libraries I had laying around and never 
bothered to. However I think I may have run into the sample limit I have 
heard about.

Right now, every subfolder within the Sample Instruments folder show up 
as empty except for the name of the folder greyed out and pointing back 
to itself:   (Basses folder) (<---Basses Folder). Looks something like 
that.

I created a primary subfolder that is full of aliases of folders so that 
the libraries are organized by category vi aliases (ex: a folder called 
PIANO full of aliases to all the libraries that have a piano in it, 
etc). I can get to the actaly sample programs from there, however they 
don't seem to load.

Is this indeed from having too many sample sounds? I don't really need 
tem all, I just figured I would have them all in one location. I could 
just remove the stuff I don't use any more (like CDs that were bought 
for a particular project but arent of much use), but was wondering how 
others handle this situation.

Thanks!

Colin