EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I found logic is doing a very bad job with the loops in the 
soundfonts. Now I'm using CD-extract to do the conversion, 
works pretty good.


--- In exs-users@y..., Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a little disappointed with the soundfont conversion 
system for the EXS
> 24 which has arrived in version 4.7.
> 
> Many soundfonts have multiple presets -- different levels of FX 
etc. Unlike
> the freeware SF2-EXS converter which I have used in the past, 
Logic's
> converter doesn't display the structure of the Soundfont or give 
any
> options as to which of the presets (most of which are useless 
in Logic as
> they are variations on SBlive parameters) -- you wish to 
convert. 
> 
> On PC, I have had several experiences as follows:  Logic's 
SF2 converter
> works away for about a minute converting all of the presets 
supplied with
> the soundfont one after the other (eg 5 versions of a Rhodes 
with 12Mb of
> samples) and then Logic will crash -- despite 384Mb memory. 
> 
> Regards,
> Murray