Apple Logic Express 7 - Manual (Page 112)

112 Chapter 19 EXSP24
Importing SoundFont2 Files
To make use of this functionality, simply copy or move your SoundFont2 files into the
Sampler Instruments folder.
Select the file name in the EXSP24 Sampler Instrument load flip-menu and the file will
automatically be converted. An EXS Instrument file will be created in the Sampler
Instruments folder which contains the original SoundFont2 file. The raw samples
associated with the Sampler Instrument will be placed in a SoundFont Samples folder
within the Logic program folder.
Should a SoundFont2 Bank file (a Bank contains multiple sounds—a General MIDI bank,
for example) be loaded, it will create a Bank folder and also a Samples folder. These new
folders will have the same name as the SoundFont2 Bank file, with the word “Bank” or
“Samples” appended.
All sounds contained in the bank will automatically have an EXS Sampler Instrument
file created and placed into the newly created Bank folder. The EXSP24 Sampler
Instrument pull-down menu will automatically be updated to reflect the new folder
hierarchy. All samples associated with the Bank will automatically have a Samples folder
created inside the SoundFont Samples folder which resides in the Logic program folder.
As an example, a SoundFont2 bank file named “Vintage Drums” is imported by the
EXSP24. It contains over 50 individual drum kits from several different vintage drum
machines. A new folder named Vintage Drums.Bank will be created in the Sampler
Instruments folder. A second folder named Vintage Drums.Samples will be created in the
SoundFont Samples folder. Both of these folders are found in the main Logic program
folder.
The Sampler Instrument pull-down 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 per
usual.
Once conversion is complete, the original SoundFont2 source files can be freely deleted
from the hard disks.