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428 Chapter 12 Project Manager
Install Files From…
This is the function to use when importing sampling CDs which contain both audio
files and EXS instruments. It’s also appropriate for the importation of songs (with all
related audio) from a CD-ROM which was burnt on another computer running Logic.
The import function is not restricted to CD. It can be used for any media type, including
external hard drives, network folders or any folder that’s accessible from your system.
• Selecting Functions > Install files from… opens a file selector window.
• Select the medium and folder you wish to install. This does not necessarily need to
be a sampling CD with EXS instruments. Importing songs and their related audio
(and settings and Quicktime movies) works in the same way.
• Press Choose.
• Another file selector window appears, allowing you to define the destination folder.
The destination must, of course, be a hard disk—not the source CD-ROM which can’t
be written to.
• You may wish to create a new folder by clicking on the dedicated button. Either way,
the following dialog will provide an opportunity to define the sub-folder that you
wish to save the Project into.
• Press Choose and a dialog will appear which allows you to set the Install Options.
Install Options
• If you Check Don’t install duplicates, no files (audio, EXS instruments or songs …) will
be installed, where duplicates already exist on the destination disk. The algorithm is
intelligent, but can take a while to analyze the data. It recognizes duplicates even if
the filenames are different, by analyzing each byte of the files. You should only use
this function if you suspect that the audio files to be installed already exist on your
destination disk.
• Only install needed files looks for the names of files which are missing, according to
the Project Manager database, and only installs files with matching names. This is
particularly useful for sampling CD-ROMs that have been installed manually, but
improperly.
• Copy, Move, or Leave Instruments to global folder relates to the global EXS Sampler
Instruments folder, and only deals with EXS “Sampler Instrument” files (.EXS). It’s
recommended that all EXS instruments only be placed in this “global” folder
(“Sampler Instruments” in the Logic application folder). For CD-ROMs, copying and
moving is identical, but this is not the case with exchangeable media such as
FireWire disks. If you select Move, the originals (on the FireWire disk) will be deleted.
If Leave is used, the EXS Instruments will remain on the medium, and only the audio
files will be “installed”.
• Subfolder Name allows you to create (and name) a new sub-folder for copied or
moved EXS Instruments. If you delete all characters in the entry Subfolder Name, no
sub-folder will be created, and the installation will be performed directly into the
selected “destination” folder.