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Manage sampler instruments
As your sample library grows, the list of sampler instruments also expands. To help you
keep the list of sampler instruments manageable, EXS24 mkII provides a simple, exible le
management method.
It is recommended that you copy any sampler instruments and all associated audio les to
your hard drive. This provides access to your sampler instruments with no need to nd and
insert CD-ROM or DVD discs, and it also enables you to organize your sampler instruments to
meet your needs. Load times are faster, and you can play back samples that exceed the size of
your computer’s RAM by streaming them from your hard disk. This feature is not practical for
optical drives.
If you are using Logic Pro X, you can save sampler instruments and associated audio les with
the project bundle. This makes it easy to keep all sampler instruments and audio samples in
one place.
Organize your sampler instruments into a preferred hierarchy
1 Create a folder on the desktop—named Basses, for example—and drag it into the target folder.
2 Drag the sampler instruments you want to move into this newly created folder.
The modied menu structure is reected when you open the Sampler Instruments
pop-up menu.
Note: Use the Refresh Menu command in the Sampler Instruments pop-up menu after changes
are made to the folder hierarchy in the Sampler Instruments folder.
The Sampler Instruments pop-up menu displays submenus only for folders that actually contain
sampler instrument les. Other folders are not added to the menu. Aliases pointing to folders
that contain sampler instrument les outside the Sampler Instruments folders can also be added
to the menu. The Sampler Instruments folder itself can be an alias to a folder on a dierent drive
or in another location.
Copy sampler instruments to your hard drive
1 To open the Library folder in a Finder window, Option-click the Go menu from the desktop, then
click Library.
2 Copy the sampler instrument le into the ~/Library/Application Support/Logic/Sampler
Instruments folder.
3 Copy the associated samples into a folder named Samples in the same folder as the Sampler
Instruments folder.