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Chapter 9 EXS24 mkII 160
When you load a SoundFont2 Bank into EXS24 mkII, it creates a Bank folder and a Samples folder,
named after the SoundFont2 Bank le. The word Bank or Samples is appended to each folder
name. A sampler instrument le is automatically created for all sounds in the bank, and placed in
the new Bank folder. The Sampler Instruments pop-up menu automatically updates to reect the
new folder hierarchy. All samples associated with the bank are automatically added to a Samples
folder inside the SoundFont folder. For example, if you load a SoundFont2 bank le named
Vintage Drums, which contains over 50 individual drum kits from several dierent vintage drum
machines, into EXS24 mkII, the following happens:
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A new folder named Vintage Drums Bank is created in the ~/Library/Application Support/
Logic/Sampler Instruments folder.
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A second folder named Vintage Drums Samples is created in the ~/Library/Application
Support/Logic/SoundFont Samples folder.
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The Sampler Instruments pop-up menu hierarchy is updated and the original Vintage Drums
entry is replaced with a Vintage Drums.Bank entry. This new entry is a folder that contains the
individual sampler instruments, which can be selected and loaded as usual.
Sampler
Instrument
category
Logic
(folder)
Sampler
instruments
Sampler
Instruments
(folder)
EXS
Samples
(folder)
SoundFont
Samples
(folder)
Basses
(folder)
Vintage
Drums Bank
(folder)
Acoustic Bass
(sampler
instrument)
Vintage Drums Kit 1
(sampler
instrument)
Vintage drums
samples
Acoustic bass
samples
After conversion is complete, the original SoundFont2 or Gigasampler source les can be deleted
from the hard disks.