EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi,

I am working on Logic 5.5.1 Gold (Win) and discovered something that may 
interest all "poor" exs users without project-management of Logic 6. Do not 
know if similar solution could help to Logic 5 Mac users too.

Have you ever felt miserable when Logic starts for e.g. 5-6 min just 
browsing the exs instruments? Or when saving.. it starts the same hated 
hdd-browsing again...and again.. and again....?

EXS manual suggests that you can use the shortcut features of Windows, that 
is: just drop the shortcuts of exs files from e.g. another drive into the 
"Sampler Instruments" folder of Program Files/emagic/Logic x.x/Sampler 
Instruments.

DO NOT DO IT!!! The "shortcut" method sucks, at least at me!

What is the solution for fast Logic startup and convenient/fast loading of 
EXS instruments?

1. I located all my samples and EXS Instruments in subfolders within e.g. 
"D:/EXS Bank". It can be anywhere else on your hdd-s.

2. Logic starts fast, if the exs instrument files are copied directly into 
the "c:/Program Files/emagic/Logic x.x/Sampler Instruments" folder!!! 
Forget the shortcuts! So we should copy *all* of our exs instruments 
directly to the original Sampler Instruments folder!

3. If you have a complex folder hierarchy of EXS Instruments at the source, 
it would be hard to re-create it manually again just for the EXS files into 
the original Sampler Instruments folder.
My solution for this: in WindowsCommander (new versions are called Total 
Commander, downloadable form www.windowscommander.com) I go into the the 
source folder, where my exs-s currently exist.

4. On the other side of the panel, open the "c:/Program Files/emagic/Logic 
x.x/Sampler Instruments"

5. Going back to the source folder panel, now select the Commands --> 
Folder Synchronization (sorry dunno the exact name, as I use my own 
language version of Commander, but it should be something similar)

6. At the upcoming file selector the "*.*" change to "*.exs"

7. Click the "subfolders too" option

8. Click to Synchronization

9. Commander will copy *only* the EXS files *with all their subfolder 
hierarchy* into the original "c:/Program Files/emagic/Logic x.x/Sampler 
Instruments" folder.

I suggest you to run the Andrea Gozzi's EXSManager before copying, just to 
filter out missing samples, reassing samples to the proper exs instruments, 
etc.

10. Restart Logic.. and voila.... it starts much more faster!!!!

Hope this would facilitate the life some PC EXS users.

bye,

 > z o o l a b <  ItaB
Experimental melodic trance
www.zoolabmusic.com

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Finally got around to downloading all the NS drumkit files, and am 
wondering if the Giga version translates as well into EXS24 as the EXS 
version that somebody kindly made available. Any advantages to one over the 
other? And am I correct in assuming the EXS version was built based on the 
raw WAV downloads?  Thanks for any help,

Sean McCoy
Oregon Sound Recording

At 05:28 PM 7/5/03 -0700, you wrote: 
>
> Finally got around to downloading all the NS drumkit files, and am 
> wondering if the Giga version translates as well into EXS24 as the EXS 
> version that somebody kindly made available. Any advantages to one over the 
> other? And am I correct in assuming the EXS version was built based on the 
> raw WAV downloads?  Thanks for any help,


The version I uploaded to the exs-users files area at Yahoo is based on an
import of the Giga version and will not work with the stereo wavs which are
also downloadable.

Regards,
Murray

At 01:54 PM 07/06/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>At 05:28 PM 7/5/03 -0700, you wrote:
>The version I uploaded to the exs-users files area at Yahoo is based on an
>import of the Giga version and will not work with the stereo wavs which are
>also downloadable.
>
>Regards,
>Murray

Thanks, Murray. So I assume I should first import their Giga version, then 
replace the resultant EXS instrument with yours?

Sean

Sean McCoy wrote:
>
> Thanks, Murray. So I assume I should first import their Giga version, then 
> replace the resultant EXS instrument with yours?


Yep.

Regards,
Murray

This is slightly off topic, but does anybody have any experience creating 
Acidized loops in Sound Forge, then importing them into Logic via Phatmatic 
Pro or something else?  I have several CD's that have multiple loops within 
a single CD track, and would prefer to set up loop points within each 
extracted track rather than creating and naming a million new tracks. Any 
advice appreciated.

Sean McCoy
Oregon Sound Recording

Just thought that folks here might be interested in the latest 
development from those folks at the Vienna Symphonic Library.

Let them explain: http://vsl.co.at/news/mir.htm
(click on the <English> button if you need to)

!!!!!!!!!!

regards - Colin

On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 03:04  PM, Colin Shapiro wrote:

>
> Just thought that folks here might be interested in the latest
> development from those folks at the Vienna Symphonic Library.

Hmm, I really wonder how this is different from Altiverb apart from the 
mixer section? Will it require anything more powerful than my dual 867 
MDD to work in surround mode? How about HTDM support? Anybody from VSL 
cares to shead some light on this?

Best,

Andy