EXS24 missing audio files

[elser]

Since upgrading from Logic 8 to Logic 9.1 I have many EXS patches which have lost their associated audio files. I'd estimate about 50% of my EXS patches have this problem. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix? My personal library is effected the worst and it seems the files that are converted Giga files are the worst, but there are also factory patches with the same problem.

[tinozigzag]

Hi Elser,
Unfortunately it can happen. I had a similar experience, try to reload the apple loops doing a custom load via the starting disc!! it should be OK then.

Tino

[rnrmachine]

Isn't there a "Rebuild library button" anywhere?

Rob

[elser]

Isn't there a "Rebuild library button" anywhere?

Rob

There's a "Refresh Menu" function but all that does is look in the Sampler Instruments folder and makes sure that all the patches show up in the list of patches.

The way the EXS24 works is there are Sampler Instruments which are software files and have all the programming info like keymaps, velocity layers, and locations for the actual samples. Then there are the Samples themselves, the audio files which are the actual sounds that are triggered. For some reason the Sampler Instruments can't locate the Samples. I could re-install everything but that would be very time consuming and it's possible that it would just happen again.

I may have to spring for Redmatica EXSManager, it's supposed fix issues like this.

[matto]

Isn't there a way to "locate" the samples? In other words when you load up a session, is it giving you an error message saying it can't find the samples? Kontakt does this and then a dialog box will let you point it to the missing samples.

Halion does something similar. It would seem that's a necessary feature since it's a common problem especially when migrating to a new system.

If not, is there a function in EXS that lets you do the same things...called "locate samples" or something to that effect? If so you should be able to reestablish the association between program and samples. You may have to save the program to make it permanent.

[elser]

Isn't there a way to "locate" the samples? In other words when you load up a session, is it giving you an error message saying it can't find the samples? Kontakt does this and then a dialog box will let you point it to the missing samples.

Halion does something similar. It would seem that's a necessary feature since it's a common problem especially when migrating to a new system.

If not, is there a function in EXS that lets you do the same things...called "locate samples" or something to that effect? If so you should be able to reestablish the association between program and samples. You may have to save the program to make it permanent.

It has that feature, when I try to load one of the problem patches I get a warning, something to the effect "EXS24 can't find the audio file synth d1, would you like to locate it?" In the past when this has happened I could locate the missing sample and then the program would automatically go to that folder for all the samples in a patch. But now for some reason it's not automatically locating the other samples, I have to locate each sample in the patch and load it individually. Considering that one patch which is multi-sampled with velocity layers will have a lot of samples in it, and I have several hundred patches which have been effected, it would take a long time. I'm wondering if there is some way to batch load the samples so that they will go back to there original keymaps but I haven't figured how yet.

[bb240z]

I had this problem. I wound up reinstalling Garage Band which I guess re-indexed everything the Logic Pro couldn't find. That got the most of it working. There were a few that I had to locate myself but the bulk of them were caused by the files being in mismatched folders between the different versions of Garage Band and Logic. I've heard the problem can be avoided by reinstalling all the GB content from the Logic Pro 9 discs also.

[elser]

I had this problem. I wound up reinstalling Garage Band which I guess re-indexed everything the Logic Pro couldn't find. That got the most of it working. There were a few that I had to locate myself but the bulk of them were caused by the files being in mismatched folders between the different versions of Garage Band and Logic. I've heard the problem can be avoided by reinstalling all the GB content from the Logic Pro 9 discs also.

I had that problem before as well. The file structure in Logic is really stupid, a lot of these problems happen to a lot of people. I downloaded the demo for Redmatica's ProManager 3 and I'm gonna go ahead and buy that. Looks like it should take care of any of these types of problems as well adding some cool features like metadata and the ability to freely organize your libraries into ways that make sense for the individual. It supposedly speeds up load times as well. It's a little expensive but I've spent too much time on this kind of crap already.

Thanks for the tip, and welcome to the happiest forum on earth!

[mojobone]

Thanks for the tip, and welcome to the happiest forum on earth!

Think we could adopt that as the official forum motto without getting sued by Disney?

[elser]

Yes, whatever you do don't piss off the Mouse.