EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I switched to the Mac and am new to the ESX24.   I've bought a few sampling 
CD's and realized that I'm running out of room on my partitioned hard drive.  
 What I'd like to do is move the Sampler Instrument folder and EXSamples 
folder to a new, clean drive.   I know how to "drag" and copy in the Mac.   I 
thought I read somewhere that these two folders have to reside in the Logic 
folder.   Is that true?   If so, can you make an alias of a folder?   Any 
advise is greatly appreciated.

If someone has asked the question on the list, please point me to the 
response (I looked but couldn't find it).

Thanks in advance,

Tony   antcinq@...


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You know, this list would be great for you too:

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Go there, search around for what you are looking for, and join the 
ONE_MESSAGE-A-DAY list there. It is nice.

Take care,
Chris M.

On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:24  PM, antcinq@... wrote:

> I switched to the Mac and am new to the ESX24.   I've bought a few 
> sampling
> CD's and realized that I'm running out of room on my partitioned hard 
> drive.
>  What I'd like to do is move the Sampler Instrument folder and 
> EXSamples
> folder to a new, clean drive.   I know how to "drag" and copy in the 
> Mac.   I
> thought I read somewhere that these two folders have to reside in the 
> Logic
> folder.   Is that true?   If so, can you make an alias of a folder?   
> Any
> advise is greatly appreciated.
>
> If someone has asked the question on the list, please point me to the
> response (I looked but couldn't find it).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tony   antcinq@...
>
>
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>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send a blank email to:
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> For a list of places to get free samples please see:
>    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exs-users/links/
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What you can do is move all your samples to any hard drive on your computer, 
however from what I have discovered you do have to leave the exs instruments 
in the folder that resides in Logic. Hope this helps.




>From: Soul [ C M ] <peaceofmind@...>
>Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
>To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [exs] How to Organize the files
>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:34:19 -0500
>
>You know, this list would be great for you too:
>
>www.osxfaq.com
>
>Go there, search around for what you are looking for, and join the
>ONE_MESSAGE-A-DAY list there. It is nice.
>
>Take care,
>Chris M.
>
>
>
>On Sunday, December 22, 2002, at 12:24  PM, antcinq@... wrote:
>
> > I switched to the Mac and am new to the ESX24.   I've bought a few
> > sampling
> > CD's and realized that I'm running out of room on my partitioned hard
> > drive.
> >  What I'd like to do is move the Sampler Instrument folder and
> > EXSamples
> > folder to a new, clean drive.   I know how to "drag" and copy in the
> > Mac.   I
> > thought I read somewhere that these two folders have to reside in the
> > Logic
> > folder.   Is that true?   If so, can you make an alias of a folder?
> > Any
> > advise is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > If someone has asked the question on the list, please point me to the
> > response (I looked but couldn't find it).
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tony   antcinq@...
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send a blank email to:
> >    exs-users-unsubscribe@egroups.com
> > For a list of places to get free samples please see:
> >    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exs-users/links/
> >
> >
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> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
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No they don't. You do have to put an alias (shortcut) in the Logic folder by
the same name that leads to your Sampler Instruments folder on the other
drive.

> I switched to the Mac and am new to the ESX24.   I've bought a few sampling
> CD's and realized that I'm running out of room on my partitioned hard drive.
> What I'd like to do is move the Sampler Instrument folder and EXSamples
> folder to a new, clean drive.   I know how to "drag" and copy in the Mac.   I
> thought I read somewhere that these two folders have to reside in the Logic
> folder.   Is that true?   If so, can you make an alias of a folder?   Any
> advise is greatly appreciated.
> 
> If someone has asked the question on the list, please point me to the
> response (I looked but couldn't find it).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tony   antcinq@...
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To unsubscribe from this group, send a blank email to:
>  exs-users-unsubscribe@egroups.com
> For a list of places to get free samples please see:
>  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exs-users/links/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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...is incredibly fast during boot up (less than 1/10 of my current OS9
bootup) and rock-solid in terms of stability. The windows open up with
blazing confidence, vastly superior to anything I've seen on MacOS9.x or PC,
in terms of rigid, swift response. It moves like Terminator 2 (no hesitation
whatsoever). I can't wait for greater Audio Unit support by third parties,
so I can switch. But alas, it's probably about 6 months out. All I can say
is Logic on OSX is breath-taking. It's something to look forward to, I can
assure you. I have a dual-800Mhz G4 and my Hammerfall will only operate at a
best speed of 3ms, while the OSX operation of the Hammerfall purrs along at
the lowest setting without so much as a hiccup. The load balancing on the
two CPU's is very impressive and transparent. I CAN'T WAIT! -Jer

I'll try to keep this short:

- The instrument files have to reside in a folder called "sampler
instruments" (without the quotes of course). There's three options for an
instrument file folder to exist:
1) As a subdirectory of your Logic program folder.
2) As a subdirectory of your songfolder (you DO create a dedicated folder
for each song, don't you? If not, it's time to start doing so!). In that
case the instrument patches will only show up in your EXS patch pulldown as
long as the song in question is loaded. Makes sense for patches that you
only plan use in that very song.
3) Anywhere on your harddisk, but you will have to create a shortcut/alias
to the folder then, called "sampler instruments" as a sub"item" in one of
the possible directories listed under 1) and 2).

- The samples used can be placed virtually *anywhere* on your harddisk. No
shortcuts or whatever will be required.
The EXS will find them in any place (depending on your OS and directory
structure that might take a while after moving them from their original
place). There is however an EXS preference (EXS editor > Edit > Preferences)
allowing you to specify an exclusive partition you want the EXS to search
on. IMPORTANT note: ANY files on other partitions that you moved (so the EXS
has to search) won't be found in case you moved them to any other partition
than the preferred one (yes, it should ask whether you'd like to locate the
samples manually instead, but it simply doesn't)!

- "AKAI Samples", "SoundFont Samples" and "DLS-Giga Samples" can all be
treated using the above mentioned shortcut/alias system as well. So you can
just put those directories on your preferred audio partition and create
shortcuts in Logics program directory.

These operations should work 100% the same on PCs and Macs but I wouldn't
happen to know how to create a shortcut under any MacOS.

Hope this helps,
Sascha

The Sampler Instruments folder is the only folder that needs to 
reside in Logic, if it isn't there it will create a new one upon start 
of the program. You can have an alias leading to a moved 
"Sampler instruments folder", as long as the alias resides 
inside a folder named "Sampler Instruments" inside of the Logic 
folder.

I used this method to have active EXS libraries shared between 
Logic OS X and Logic OS 9, depending on what OS I was booted 
into. they both would know how to get to the Sampler 
Instruments without having to have 2 copies.


As far as EXsamples goes, it can reside anywhere, doesn't have 
to be in the Logic folder, as Logic will search for the samples 
once you try to load the .exs instrument. The same as it 
searches for audio files as you load a session.

Hope that isn't to confusing.