EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 13-02-2004, rayoflife wrote:

>Hi everyone. I just started using Exs24 on a g5 with logic 6.0
>platinum. But I 'm working with my colleague's library and I only
>have an EXS manual in German!!! I just couldn't figure out how
>Exs reads samples from where and program files from where. I 've
>looked for any pdf files about Exs24 on the net but couldn't
>find. I convert lot of my old sample library from any format to
>Exs format but I don't know how I will be able to use them in
>EXs. Any info about the system it uses( I mean which folder it
>gets the samples, which folder it gets the prog files, is it
>possible to load samples from cd from... ) will be very very
>appreciated. Or you may just send me urls where I can find PDFS
>in ENGLISH.

Very short: the instrument files (*.exs) go in the Sampler 
Instruments folder which should already exist in your Logic 
application folder.  The samples themselves (wav, aiff, sd2) can be 
stored anywhere on your system.

The 1st trime the EXS loads a program, it scans your system for the 
proper samples, which might take a while.  Then it writes the 
absolute filepath in the .exs file, so that next time you load the 
same program, it loads much faster.

Note that the EXS isn't very clever when it comes to using different 
samples with the same name, of different programs with the same name. 
So try not to have 2 samples called "kick.aiff", or 2 programs called 
"rock kit.exs".

You load an EXS program by clicking on the big black field between 
the Edit and Option buttons in the EXS main interface.  In order to 
create your own EXS program, click the Edit button to open the 
Instrument Editor.  The EXS uses Zones, each of which contains one 
sample and spans a certain section of the keyboard.  Zones can be 
grouped in Groups, which allows you to e.g. adjust dynamics or 
polyphony for an entire set of samples simultaneously.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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