EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of Nick Batzdorf, 22-12-2002:

>I have an alias to my EXSamples folder, which is on a separate disk,
>in the Sampler Instruments folder (which is in the same folder as
>Logic). What doesn't work is having an alias to the folder containing
>the EXSamples folder - it quite understandably gets confused.
>
>"Why the hell would he want to do that?!" you ask. Because I have one
>big folder with samples in various formats, and I'd like to be able
>to open them in different soft samplers: EXS, Halion, and Soft
>SampleCell.

 From the above I don't quite understand what you try to do... 
However, I hope you do realise that you can rename aliasses?  So the 
(real) folder containing the samples could be called "All My Samples" 
and reside on harddisk B.  Then you could put an alias in the Logic 
folder (which might be on harddisk A) and call that "EXSamples", and 
have another alias to this same folder in another application's 
folder, and rename the alias to something appropriate for _that_ 
application, etc.
So you could put an alias to the folder containing the EXSamples 
folder in the Logic folder, and rename that alias to EXSamples... 
And yes, this means you'd have an alias called EXSamples, which 
points to a real folder called "Some name", which in turn contains a 
folder called "EXSamples".  This might be somewhat confusing as the 
EXSamples alias has nothing to do with the EXSamples folder (everyone 
still there? ;-)

And (not responding to the above but to something else I just read 
here): this entire mess of EXSamples, Akai Samples, Soundfont 
Samples, and whichever other folder Logic likes to come up with is 
complete bollocks.  There's no problem in putting all those samples 
in one folder on whichever disk.  Then put an alias to this folder in 
the Logic folder, and call the alias "EXSamples" and you're done.

Uhm... rethinking the above: you don't even have to have an alias 
called EXSamples in your Logic folder at all.  The EXS will simply 
scan all your disks until it find the proper samples...  So... what's 
the problem anyway?

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>

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