En alweer een handige tip voor alle EXS24 gebruikers : er bestaat een handige utility die het (eindelijk) mogelijk maakt zelf je EXS instrumenten in te delen, sample-search functies, wavs voor EXS instrumenten indelen en herschikken enz.
Emagic had wat betreft file management voor EXS24 wel een paar steken laten vallen, dus had een of andere EXS-freak blijkbaar geen zin om nog langer te wachten op een update, en heeft ie zelf gauw eventjes een utility geprogammeerd : EXS manager 1.1 !! En het beste nieuws : EXS manager is freeware !!!!! En het ziet er nog goed uit ook!!
http://www.arcanoise.com/ExsManager/index.htm
Exs Manager is a *free* Win98/ME/2K/XP utility for managing instrument files (and related samples) for Emagic Exs24 softsampler.
The basic concepts are:
1) Instruments are never moved/copied/deleted. They are only updated (see: about used sample files location).
2) Instead, samples are scanned in selected HD locations, checked for redundancy (identical copies of the same sample data, also referred as clones) in various possible ways, copied to a destination directory, or left where they are, based on a number of options. You can create an independent sample set for each instrument (even if this mean having several copies of the same exact sample on the HD), or create sample sets where sample are shared as much as possible between instruments.
ExsManager works using an algorithm that does not allow samples to be overwritten. Samples with same name (not necessarily same content) are stored to separate directories when filenames collide.
3) You can decide to delete unused samples, delete clone samples, delete unused sample folders (this last one feature is useful for "cleaning" folder structures when changing from "independent samples" to "shared samples").
4) You can view the instrument/sample (cross-referenced) relationships. (i.e. which samples are used in a single instrument? or Which instruments use that single sample?) Complete sample paths and file sizes are shown. Instruments with partially missing samples are highlighted with a different color so you can check for completeness of instruments/ samples sets. These missing-samples instruments can still be updated for the existing/found sample files. When loaded inside Exs24, the standard Exs24 sample search will happen for the missing samples only.
You can download the program and read online docs at
http://www.arcanoise.com/ExsManager/index.htm
The hosting server is quite slow. Please be patient
Emagic had wat betreft file management voor EXS24 wel een paar steken laten vallen, dus had een of andere EXS-freak blijkbaar geen zin om nog langer te wachten op een update, en heeft ie zelf gauw eventjes een utility geprogammeerd : EXS manager 1.1 !! En het beste nieuws : EXS manager is freeware !!!!! En het ziet er nog goed uit ook!!
http://www.arcanoise.com/ExsManager/index.htm
Exs Manager is a *free* Win98/ME/2K/XP utility for managing instrument files (and related samples) for Emagic Exs24 softsampler.
The basic concepts are:
1) Instruments are never moved/copied/deleted. They are only updated (see: about used sample files location).
2) Instead, samples are scanned in selected HD locations, checked for redundancy (identical copies of the same sample data, also referred as clones) in various possible ways, copied to a destination directory, or left where they are, based on a number of options. You can create an independent sample set for each instrument (even if this mean having several copies of the same exact sample on the HD), or create sample sets where sample are shared as much as possible between instruments.
ExsManager works using an algorithm that does not allow samples to be overwritten. Samples with same name (not necessarily same content) are stored to separate directories when filenames collide.
3) You can decide to delete unused samples, delete clone samples, delete unused sample folders (this last one feature is useful for "cleaning" folder structures when changing from "independent samples" to "shared samples").
4) You can view the instrument/sample (cross-referenced) relationships. (i.e. which samples are used in a single instrument? or Which instruments use that single sample?) Complete sample paths and file sizes are shown. Instruments with partially missing samples are highlighted with a different color so you can check for completeness of instruments/ samples sets. These missing-samples instruments can still be updated for the existing/found sample files. When loaded inside Exs24, the standard Exs24 sample search will happen for the missing samples only.
You can download the program and read online docs at
http://www.arcanoise.com/ExsManager/index.htm
The hosting server is quite slow. Please be patient
