EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

i have installed Logic 5.5.1 in my Win XP Pro and have been using it 
for over a year now.
i don't know exactly when this problem began, but more often than none 
i have a problem selecting instruments in EXS, meaning, i click and no 
window opens to select the sampler instruments. however, i can select 
Controls window in EXS, and click on and select instruments, but they 
are not categorized and it looks like a jungle!!!
i think this started happening after i installed Redmatica's EXS 
Manager a few weeks ago, but this is only a guess.
is there anyone out there who has had the same problem and if so, 
what's the cure for it? this takes the fun out of making music :(
PLEASE HELP!!!!

On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:11 AM, boobooshka wrote:

>
>
>
> i have installed Logic 5.5.1 in my Win XP Pro and have been using it
> for over a year now.
> i don't know exactly when this problem began, but more often than none
> i have a problem selecting instruments in EXS, meaning, i click and no
> window opens to select the sampler instruments. however, i can select
> Controls window in EXS, and click on and select instruments, but they
> are not categorized and it looks like a jungle!!!
> i think this started happening after i installed Redmatica's EXS
> Manager a few weeks ago, but this is only a guess.
> is there anyone out there who has had the same problem and if so,
> what's the cure for it? this takes the fun out of making music :(
> PLEASE HELP!!!!


Hi,
the problem is simply that you have too many instrument files.
The Exs24 instrument menu in Logic Windows 5.5 has a limitation in that 
it won't open if you have more than (roughly) 10000 instruments.
As you say, you can use the control window, but it's messy...

Suggestion: keep around only the useful instrument files.

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Andrea at Redmatica <agoz@r...> 
wrote:

On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:11 AM, boobooshka wrote:
i have installed Logic 5.5.1 in my Win XP Pro and have been using it
for over a year now.
i don't know exactly when this problem began, but more often than 
none i have a problem selecting instruments in EXS, meaning, i click 
and no window opens to select the sampler instruments. however, i 
can select Controls window in EXS, and click on and select 
instruments, but they are not categorized and it looks like a 
jungle!!!
i think this started happening after i installed Redmatica's EXS
Manager a few weeks ago, but this is only a guess.
is there anyone out there who has had the same problem and if so,
what's the cure for it? this takes the fun out of making music :(
PLEASE HELP!!!!

 
Hi,
the problem is simply that you have too many instrument files.
The Exs24 instrument menu in Logic Windows 5.5 has a limitation in 
that it won't open if you have more than (roughly) 10000 instruments.
As you say, you can use the control window, but it's messy...
 
Suggestion: keep around only the useful instrument files.
 
Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica


thanks Andrea,

i was running EXS Manager as i was reading your respond and noticed 
there were over 12,000 instruments in the Sampler Instruments 
folder. like you suggested, i am going to clean up some of the 
unused instruments and hopefull that will eliminate the problem.

since i have your attention, i might as well ask you about EXS 
Manager and the VSL Strings library (EXS). EXS Manager has quit 
twice while scanning the samples folder. is there a compatibility 
issue between EXS Manager and VSL, or could it be just a bad file? i 
could write down the exact error message, since it does ask to 
report the error to Redmatica.

Thanks much for your help.

Best
Andre

> since i have your attention, i might as well ask you about EXS
> Manager and the VSL Strings library (EXS). EXS Manager has quit
> twice while scanning the samples folder. is there a compatibility
> issue between EXS Manager and VSL, or could it be just a bad file? i
> could write down the exact error message, since it does ask to
> report the error to Redmatica.

Yes, there is a compatibility issue between ExsManager PC (Windows) and 
VSL performance libraries.
The problem is: when ExsManager PC (Windows) was written, VSL did not 
exist yet.
So, you won't be able to scan the performance instruments, as they 
contain some special data which we couldn't know at the time.
The VSL cube instruments will instead work correctly.

ExsManager PC (Windows) is free (has always been free), and it's not 
supported anymore, so there's no solution for this...

I know this doesn't directly interest you, but i just want to state the 
fact that ExsManager OSX is a total rewrite, it's fully supported, and 
of course has no such problems.

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica

On Apr 13, 2005, at 9:24 AM, boobooshka wrote:

> is there a compatibility
> issue between EXS Manager and VSL, or could it be just a bad file? i
> could write down the exact error message, since it does ask to
> report the error to Redmatica.

Another possibility, if you aren't using performance instruments: we 
found out that some buggy decompressors sometimes add some extra data 
to the VSL instrument files.
So, it might  be just a case of a bad file..

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica

Andrea at Redmatica <agoz@...> wrote:

Yes, there is a compatibility issue between ExsManager PC (Windows) and 
VSL performance libraries.
The problem is: when ExsManager PC (Windows) was written, VSL did not 
exist yet.
So, you won't be able to scan the performance instruments, as they 
contain some special data which we couldn't know at the time.
The VSL cube instruments will instead work correctly.

ExsManager PC (Windows) is free (has always been free), and it's not 
supported anymore, so there's no solution for this...

I know this doesn't directly interest you, but i just want to state the 
fact that ExsManager OSX is a total rewrite, it's fully supported, and 
of course has no such problems.

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica


since i have your attention, i might as well ask you about EXS
Manager and the VSL Strings library (EXS). EXS Manager has quit twice while scanning the samples folder. is there a compatibility issue between EXS Manager and VSL, or could it be just a bad file? i could write down the exact error message, since it does ask to report the error to Redmatica.


Thanks Andrea for taking the time to clear these issues. I may be able to get by without managing the VSL files, but I am planning to move to OSX eventually, just for some typical reasons.
 
Thanks again.
 
Best
Andre

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "boobooshka" <andrekian@y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Andrea at Redmatica <agoz@r...> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 13, 2005, at 1:11 AM, boobooshka wrote:
> i have installed Logic 5.5.1 in my Win XP Pro and have been using it
> for over a year now.
> i don't know exactly when this problem began, but more often than 
> none i have a problem selecting instruments in EXS, meaning, i click 
> and no window opens to select the sampler instruments. however, i 
> can select Controls window in EXS, and click on and select 
> instruments, but they are not categorized and it looks like a 
> jungle!!!
> i think this started happening after i installed Redmatica's EXS
> Manager a few weeks ago, but this is only a guess.
> is there anyone out there who has had the same problem and if so,
> what's the cure for it? this takes the fun out of making music :(
> PLEASE HELP!!!!
> 
>  
> Hi,
> the problem is simply that you have too many instrument files.
> The Exs24 instrument menu in Logic Windows 5.5 has a limitation in 
> that it won't open if you have more than (roughly) 10000 instruments.
> As you say, you can use the control window, but it's messy...
>  
> Suggestion: keep around only the useful instrument files.
>  
> Best Regards
> Andrea at Redmatica
> 
> 
> thanks Andrea,
> 
> i was running EXS Manager as i was reading your respond and noticed 
> there were over 12,000 instruments in the Sampler Instruments 
> folder. like you suggested, i am going to clean up some of the 
> unused instruments and hopefull that will eliminate the problem.
> 
> since i have your attention, i might as well ask you about EXS 
> Manager and the VSL Strings library (EXS). EXS Manager has quit 
> twice while scanning the samples folder. is there a compatibility 
> issue between EXS Manager and VSL, or could it be just a bad file? i 
> could write down the exact error message, since it does ask to 
> report the error to Redmatica.
> 
> Thanks much for your help.
> 
> Best
> Andre

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