If you have a SCSI connection between the EX and your computer you can drag and drop Samples between the EX Synth Data Window and other Child Windows.
To use the ex.factory SMDI support you need the ex.factory SMDI software interface installed.
You configure SMDI support by setting up the following in the SMDI Preferences Tab of the Preferences Dialog.
The Samples shown in the EX Synthesizer Window are coloured to indicate whether or not a Sample exists at that slot. If there is no Sample at a particular slot, then the slot is coloured red, otherwise it is coloured black.
When ex.factory starts up, it does not know the names of the Samples installed in the EX, so all Sample slots are assumed to be empty and are thus coloured red within the EX Synthesizer Window.
If a Sample slot is empty, then it cannot be used as a drag source.
You can get the names of the Samples currently loaded within the EX by selecting the Get EX Sample Names menu option from the SMDI Menu. Alternatively you if you right click over the User Sample Collection in the EX Synthesizer Window you can use the Get EX Sample Names menu option found upon the Context Sensitive Menu.
While the Sample names are loading a dialog window shows you the progress.
Reading 1024 Sample headers takes a few minutes, but you can cancel the operation at any time whilst retaining the Sample headers that have already been read. So for example if you only have 50 Samples in the EX, you can abort the operation after they have been read.
You can limit the maximum number of Samples to be read by the Import Limit field in the SMDI Preferences Tab of the Preferences Dialog.
You can also set ex.factory to automatically import the Sample names when it starts up by setting the Read EX SMDI Data on ex.factory Startup and Startup Import Limit parameters in the SMDI Preferences Tab of the Preferences Dialog.
Once the Sample names have been imported then they are available within the EX Synthesizer Window as both sources and destinations for drag operations.
You can use drag and drop to:
Either single Samples or multiple Samples can be copied. Note: you can only copy Samples via SMDI, you cannot move them. This means you must hold down the DRAG MODIFIER key during the drag and drop operation to ensure the operation is a copy operation.
A dialog window will show the progress of a SMDI data transfer. If you are copying multiple Samples then you can cancel the operation, and ex.factory will abort the transfer once the transfer of the current Sample being transferred is completed.
If you load a new S1M file into the EX, then you will need to repeat the Get EX Sample Names command to ensure that ex.factory's Sample list is consistent with that within the EX.