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White Baby Grand Update

This is an optional update for the White Baby Grand. If you are happy with the sound of your White Baby Grand, then you don't need to use this update.  If you wish to use this update, please ensure you follow the installation instructions below.

Imperfect Samples cannot be held accountable for any loss of data, so please back up your files, and ensure to follow these instructions completely.

This update contains:

1. Latency fix for EXS24 
Fixes Latency experienced by EXS24 users.

2. "Human Fingers", and “Main Instruments” instruments for EXS24 
This adds new instrument files with different types of behaviour, as per your preference.
Main Instruments: Piano with fast attack. This is the preference of the majority of users.
Human Fingers: Piano including the full sample of each note. This includes subtle sounds just before and during the fingers tap the ivory keys. This arguably sounds more real, but some pianists might sense the slight (ms) delay whilst playing.

3. Replacement Samples (only available in some versions of the White Baby Grand)
This irons out certain overly-imperfect samples, if you wish to do so.

PC Windows Installation Instructions:
(if you use a MAC, refer to MAC installation instructions below)

1. Backup your entire instrument to DVDs and keep them safe, if you haven’t already done so.  It is important to do this, as further downloads cost bandwidth.

2. Navigate to your ‘White Baby Grand’ folder on your hard disk. Notice it contains your original *.exs files. 

3. Inside your White Baby Grand folder, create a new folder named “Old Instrument Files”. Move your original  *.exs files into this folder. This is your backup of your old EXS24 instrument files. NB: Make sure you only move the *.exs files. Leave the *.tga file where it is.

4. You need winrar to decompress the update file. If you don’t already have the latest version installed, please install Winrar: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar380.exe . After you have installed Winrar, continue to the next step.

5. Double-click on the update file to decompress it. If you encounter an error, please erase it and download it again. Ensure you are using Mozilla Firefox and the Download Them All! plugin as instructed. Once it has finished decompressing without errors, continue to the next step.

6. Notice there are these folders inside the update: ‘Human Fingers’, ‘Main Instruments’, and more.

7. Highlight all these folders and copy them into your ‘White Baby Grand’ folder. If Windows prompts you to replace or skip files, click ‘replace all’.

8. To understand what each instrument name means, please read the ‘instrument names.rtf’ file.

8. You may now delete the ‘update’ folder, and .rar file.

Your update is now installed. 

If you have any queries, please contact info@imperfectsamples.com

MAC Installation Instructions:
(if you use a PC, refer to PC installation instructions above)

1. Backup your entire instrument to DVDs and keep them safe, if you haven’t already done so.  It is important to do this, as further downloads cost bandwidth.

2. Navigate to your ‘White Baby Grand’ folder on your hard disk. Notice it contains your original *.exs files. 

3. Inside your White Baby Grand folder, create a new folder named “Old Instrument Files”. Move your original *.exs files into this folder. This is your backup of your old EXS24 instrument files. NB: Make sure you only move the *.exs files. Leave the *.tga file where it is.

4. You need Stuffit Expander or similar to decompress the update file. If you don’t already have the latest version installed, please install Stuffit Expander: http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit/expander.html . After you have installed Stuffit Expander, continue to the next step.

5. Double-click on the update file to decompress it. If you encounter an error, please erase it and download it again. Ensure you are using Mozilla Firefox and the Download Them All! plugin as instructed. Once it has finished decompressing without errors, continue to the next step.

6. Notice that a new blue ‘update’ folder has been created. Open this folder. 

7. Notice there are these folders inside the update: ‘Human Fingers’, ‘Main Instruments’, and more.

8. First, copy ‘Human Fingers’, ‘Main Instruments’, and ‘Effects’, into your ‘White Baby Grand’ folder. 

9. Navigate back to the ‘update’ folder. Notice that there are folders named ‘perspective 1’, ‘perspective 2’, and ‘perspective 3’. Don’t worry if you only have some of these folders; this is normal. (NB: If your update does not contain any ‘perspective’ folders, please jump to step 11.

10. Copy the audio files inside the ‘perspective’ folders, to their corresponding folders on your hard disk. For example, for perspective 1, copy each audio file in ‘layer1’ across to ‘perspective 1’ -> ‘layer1’ on your hard disk, and click ‘replace file’. Do this for all the files. WARNING: Make sure you copy each file individually. DO NOT copy the entire folder and select ‘replace all’, as some versions of OS X will erase all original files and folders. This is a design flaw in some versions of OS X – irritating I know! Just copy each audio file individually and you’ll be fine.

11. To understand what each instrument name means, please read the ‘instrument names.rtf’ file.

12. You may now delete the ‘update’ folder, and .rar file.

Your update is now installed. 

If you have any queries, please contact info@imperfectsamples.com