EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi, 
I put this soundfont2, labelled: .SF2 into the sampler instruments folder but it does'nt 
show up in exs nor does it convert automatically, any suggestions? Thanks

On 21/03/2005, at 2:30 AM, haraldschneller wrote:

>
>  I put this soundfont2, labelled: .SF2 into the sampler instruments 
> folder but it does'nt
>  show up in exs nor does it convert automatically, any suggestions? 
> Thanks

Read the bit in the exs manual on converting SF2 files...

Andris

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OK, the soundfont shows up in the folder but by selecting it I get:
"Insufficient access privileges for operation
Result code= -5000"

Thanks for assistance
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On 21.03.2005, at 14:41, Harald Schneller wrote:

> OK, the soundfont shows up in the folder but by selecting it I get:
> "Insufficient access privileges for operation
> Result code= -5000"

Copied from a CD and still writeprotected?
Activate the file, hit [cmd]-I to get the file info and set the 
permissions to a more liberal state  (everything for everyone or so ;)


Peter Ostry

It's likely that this file came from a CD and OSX changes the file
permissions when you copied it. The result code -5000 is an OSX
error code, not a Logic error. To solve this problem, open the
terminal and do a "chmod 644"  on this file. Email me if you don't
know how to do that and I will give you step by step instructions.

Bernard

> OK, the soundfont shows up in the folder but by selecting it I get:
> "Insufficient access privileges for operation
> Result code= -5000"

I found a free soundfont online with the suffix "sfpack".
When I put it in the Sampler Instruments folder, the EXS wouldn't "see" 
it.
I changed the suffix to sf2 and the EXS could "see" it but not open it.
Is this "sfpack" format compatible?

thanks
tom

Tom Hammer wrote:
> I found a free soundfont online with the suffix "sfpack".
> When I put it in the Sampler Instruments folder, the EXS wouldn't "see"
> it.
> I changed the suffix to sf2 and the EXS could "see" it but not open it.
> Is this "sfpack" format compatible?

sfPack (and sfArk) are freeware Windows programs to compress soundfonts. As far as I know, there's nothing for OSX (or any other Mac
OS) dealing with them. So you need a Windoze box to extract them to SF2.

- Sascha

At 11:53 AM 4/30/2005 -0400, you wrote:

>I found a free soundfont online with the suffix "sfpack".
>When I put it in the Sampler Instruments folder, the EXS wouldn't "see"
>it.
>I changed the suffix to sf2 and the EXS could "see" it but not open it.
>Is this "sfpack" format compatible?

Before I answer - so your name is Thomas Hammer? Ha! Go to hammersound.net 
- probably the most significant soundfont site on the Web, run by a guy 
named Thomas Hammer. Small world!

You have to "unpack" it with a program called SFPack. You can get it on 
hammersound.net, look for it in the FAQ. it is Windows only though - if you 
only have a Mac (horrors!) send it to me or refer the link to me and I'll 
decompress it for you.

SFPack and another related one were compression utilities that seemed to be 
necessary at the time, before RAR and other ones came out that did a more 
effective job at compression than ZIP. They are obsolete now, and I wish 
the sites would eliminate .sfpack files and reload them as .rar.



Garth Hjelte
Sampler User

>> I found a free soundfont online with the suffix "sfpack".
>> When I put it in the Sampler Instruments folder, the EXS wouldn't "see"
>> it.
>> I changed the suffix to sf2 and the EXS could "see" it but not open it.
>> Is this "sfpack" format compatible?
> 
> sfPack (and sfArk) are freeware Windows programs to compress soundfonts. As
> far as I know, there's nothing for OSX (or any other Mac
> OS) dealing with them. So you need a Windoze box to extract them to SF2.
> 
> - Sascha


There is a utility for sfark files:

sfArkXT for OS X, AFAIK available at http://melodymachine.com

But AFAIK there is no way to handle sfpack files on the Mac.

Don

Tiger, friends..
still some unfinished business here, soundfonts, they are available, usable via simple synth:
http://pete.yandell.com/links/
Oha, it doesn't work in Logic7 (sic!), so to save time, I'm rerecording the files in audio hijack, 
a relive by the way,
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/
dragging them back into Logic, to make things happen, how? who cares