EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I've had extremely poor luck with Translator.  I tried a number of builds,
each claming to fix this or that issue, and have finally written the whole
thing off as a waste of money.

It's (IMHO) a buggy product.  If it isn't corrupting the samples, it's
corrupting the assignment data in the EXS file.  If it's not doing that,
it's crashing my Mac (OS9).  They don't have an OSX version yet, and I'm
tired of waiting.  Since logic is OSX now, I've nuked my OS9 partition and
left the reboots as a distanct memory.

Maybe someday if Chicken get's its stuff together and does an OSX version
I'll try that.  At least then, when it blows up 10 times an hour I won't be
rebooting.

If your looking to speed up the import process, try this:

Move all your existing EXS samples and files out of the logic folder.  Since
all my samples and EXS inst. Files are on a separate partition anyway, I
just nuke the aliases.

Then convert your CD.

When done, move them out to where the others are, and nuke the folders in
the logic folder.  Do the next one.  Repeat.

It's a LOT faster.  Why?  Since you are putting each conversion in a
separate folder, and logic doesn't see any folders at all where the sample
files normally are, it skips the file name check (which is designed to
prevent duplicate sample file names).  This takes a LOT of time,
particularly if you have a ton of samples (my sample partition is 30 GB).

I've seen as much as a 10x increase in conversion speed by going this route.

Don't thank me, I got this trick off the list from somebody else a year ago.

=)