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Re: [exs] Converting Akai files to external firewire

Re: [exs] Converting Akai files to external firewire

2002-02-16 by Eli Krantzberg

kurtgoebel@... wrote:

> Just received my EXS yesterday and am trying to put my akai discs on my
> external firewire drive connected to my Tibook.  Why does the EXS insist on
> placing the samples and actual patches on my internal drive, in the sampler
> instruments folder, which is of course inside the Logic folder.  I don't have
> room on the internal drive for my entire library.  What's the trick.

Hi Kurt,

Create a sampler instruments folder on your external hard drive, then put an
alias of it in the same folder as your Logic Audio application. Logic needs to
"see" the "sampler instruments" folder on the same level as itself, but it can
be an alias.

BTW, you'll probably also want to do this same thing with the Akai Samples
folder it will create once you start converting Akai CDs. In fact this folder is
the big one where all the samples are actually stored. It's really this one, and
not so much the sampler instruments folder that will save you internal HD space.



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Eli Krantzberg
Nightshift Orchestra / Almat Productions
http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com

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