Convert a chopped audio file to a sampler instrument (not quick sampler) referencing the original single audio file.

HELP. 🙏🏼

In Logic 10.7.8 I want to convert a chopped audio file to a sampler instrument (not quick sampler) chromatically and have all the chops still reference one single audio file.

This seems like it should be so simple because I used to do it all the time with the EXS24 Sampler. But no matter which method I try, the sampler creates duplicate audio files for each zone every time.

So If I chop up a 10 minute song into 80 regions, the sampler creates 79 copies of that 10 minute song (one for each zone) when I convert regions to a new sampler Instrument. You can see how this would waste a lot of resources.

I have been a logic user for over a decade and this hurts to see such a good update lacking this one ability. Or maybe I am doing something wrong. (I hope so)

I have a large library of custom sampler instruments of different kinds. A lot of which are just single audio files that have been chopped up into 70+ pieces. All the sampler Instruments that I created using the old EXS24 still open and work flawlessly while referencing only the one source file they were created with.

Thank you so much for your help.