EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi,

I need to decide tonight whether I should put my new 24 bit EXS24 
sample library "Scarbee R.S.P.'73" (Rhodes) uncompressed (2.25 GB) on 
4 CD's or use winrar to make 2 split volumes using only " CD's. Seeen 
from a manufacturer view there is quite a difference: more CD's, more 
expensive shipping, etc.

But what about compatibility? I use Windows XP and have Winrar 3.0.
If I make two .rar files (Split volume on 2 CD's) will you be able to 
extract the files if you have MacOS 9 or earlier?

On the www.rarlab.com it seems that winrar 3.0 only comes to MacOs X.

Is there a free stuffit version for MacOs 9 that can extract rhe 
files?

I will really appreciate fat help, since I have to do the manufaction 
now.


thanks

Thomas Hansen Skarbye
www.scarbee.om
info@...

--- Thomas Hansen Skarbye <thomas@...> wrote:

> But what about compatibility? I use Windows XP and have Winrar 3.0.
> If I make two .rar files (Split volume on 2 CD's) will you be able to 
> extract the files if you have MacOS 9 or earlier?
> 
> On the www.rarlab.com it seems that winrar 3.0 only comes to MacOs X.
> 
> Is there a free stuffit version for MacOs 9 that can extract rhe 
> files?
> 


.rar is always a pain in OS 9.
I end up throwing them into Virtual PC to decompress.
Most people probably don't have Virtual PC.

My $.02



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Thoughts from the mind of Thomas Hansen Skarbye, 04-12-2002:

>But what about compatibility? I use Windows XP and have Winrar 3.0.
>If I make two .rar files (Split volume on 2 CD's) will you be able to
>extract the files if you have MacOS 9 or earlier?
>
>On the www.rarlab.com it seems that winrar 3.0 only comes to MacOs X.
>
>Is there a free stuffit version for MacOs 9 that can extract rhe
>files?
>
>I will really appreciate fat help, since I have to do the manufaction
>now.

Not sure about the latest stuffit, but at least until recently (or 
maybe still) stuffit only did rar-2 format, if I remember correctly. 
So you could compress it with an older version maybe?

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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On 4/12/02 9:32 pm, "Thomas Hansen Skarbye" <thomas@...> wrote:
> Is there a free stuffit version for MacOs 9 that can extract rhe
> files?
> 
> I will really appreciate fat help, since I have to do the manufaction
> now.
I'd personally recommend .zip files. It may be a predominantly PC based
format, but is supported by OS9 and OSX versions of stuffit IIRC.

Failing that, is there any reason you cant quickly knock up a custom
installer application that uncompresses from whatever format itself and
doesn¹t rely on stuffit or whatever? Pretty easy...

P.S. I'd personally keep away from RAR as a format in general as its
normallly just associated with warez kiddies and isnt that widely supported
outside of that community.

Best Wishes,

Dave Peverley

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I have had very good luck with the disk streaming feature on OS 9, it's
worked almost flawlessly on my TIBook 667. But it is not working at all on
OS X. Many attacks are non-existant, and the audio is full of crackles and
pops. 

Anyone having luck with disk streaming on OS X? Darcy

It's probably right in front of me, but I can't see it: When I make a change
to an instrument, like change an envelope, how do I save that as a permanent
change in the instrument?  The only thing I can see is saving plug in
settings, but that can't be it... I want to save the settings in the
instrument file, the .exs file. If I change to another instrument, the edits
just disappear. Hmm. There's gotta be something I'm missing...?

So far, the exs seems like a pretty good thing...

Darcy

I have decided to let the EXS24 and Halion version ship on 4 CD's uncompressed. Theis way there will be no problems for the Mac people.

Thanks

Thomas

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrick Hall 
  To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [exs] PC Winrar 3.0 files to MacOs 9 or earlier...


  --- Thomas Hansen Skarbye <thomas@...> wrote:

  > But what about compatibility? I use Windows XP and have Winrar 3.0.
  > If I make two .rar files (Split volume on 2 CD's) will you be able to 
  > extract the files if you have MacOS 9 or earlier?
  > 
  > On the www.rarlab.com it seems that winrar 3.0 only comes to MacOs X.
  > 
  > Is there a free stuffit version for MacOs 9 that can extract rhe 
  > files?
  > 


  .rar is always a pain in OS 9.
  I end up throwing them into Virtual PC to decompress.
  Most people probably don't have Virtual PC.

  My $.02



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Pev wrote:
> P.S. I'd personally keep away from RAR as a format in general as its
> normallly just associated with warez kiddies and isnt that widely
supported
> outside of that community.

Unfortunately you're right with that.
Rar originally is a far superior format than WinZip, especially the
multimedia compression is very nice (approx. compression ratio is around
50%).
The reason it was started being used by "warez kiddies" back then was that
it supports split files that would fit on a floppy disc, so you could
download at the (rare) places where they had internet access and take things
home with you. Or just copy it from some of your warez friends. Later on
they seem to have adopted the format for newsgroup distribution of cracked
programs, apparently because they don't do any good with larger files (and
still for the reason that floppies were the main porting medium).

Sascha

Darcy Phillips wrote:
> It's probably right in front of me, but I can't see it: When I make a
change
> to an instrument, like change an envelope, how do I save that as a
permanent
> change in the instrument?  The only thing I can see is saving plug in
> settings, but that can't be it... I want to save the settings in the
> instrument file, the .exs file. If I change to another instrument, the
edits
> just disappear. Hmm. There's gotta be something I'm missing...?

Click the "Options" pulldown. "Save settings to instrument".

Sascha

Dave Peverley wrote:

>I'd personally keep away from RAR as a format in general as its
>normallly just associated with warez kiddies and isnt that widely supported
>outside of that community.

I'd never even heard of .rar until I went to download some great .gig 
sounds (from www.worrasplace.com, for example) - point being that 
nobody's talking about using it, just decompressing those files!
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, fax -5434, cell 818/601-4874

Quite right. I never would have thought to look under "options" for such a
function, a bit of a strange place to put it, imho.

Certainly not very hard to find, though, if one spends more than a minute at
it...

Thank you Sascha! 

on 12/5/02 2:41 AM, Sascha Franck at s.franck@... wrote:

Darcy Phillips wrote:
> It's probably right in front of me, but I can't see it: When I make a
change
> to an instrument, like change an envelope, how do I save that as a
permanent
> change in the instrument?  The only thing I can see is saving plug in
> settings, but that can't be it... I want to save the settings in the
> instrument file, the .exs file. If I change to another instrument, the
edits
> just disappear. Hmm. There's gotta be something I'm missing...?

Click the "Options" pulldown. "Save settings to instrument".

Sascha





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