EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Joe, what a great post that was!  One question though on the subject of...

>5) HiHat Programming:

You write:

>First off, you want to try to get a continuous variation from open to
>closed - I do this with a electronic hihat pedal that transmits cc1, and my
>programs use this to adjust the hats' openness. I use 4-6 discrete samples
>for hat

You mean the pedal crossfades between the different hat samples, 
right?  How?  Are they all assigned to the same key but in different 
velocity layers?

>In the K2500 I use cc1 to crossfade between the closed, half-open, and open
>samples (using 3 voices per hit).. EXS has the new sample-select
>crossfading feature that should be able to accomplish the same thing
>handily (I haven't gotten to that yet, because the different hat samples
>really need different attack settings, so I'm waiting). The idea is that if
>you're riding on the slosh or open hihats, they ring out overlapping for a
>nice natural-sounding wash, but as soon as you stomp on the pedal (cc0) all
>of these ringing hat samples will be cut off and the foot sample will sound
>(this sounds more natural than a monophonic hihat group).

So: all the open-hat samples are on one key, the cc1 pedal does 
velocity crossfading between them, and the samples are in a 
polyphonic group so you can have overlapping hats... Yes?  How then 
does the cc0 pedal cut off all those ringing notes?  Mind you: I 
would know how to make an environment patch that does this, but it 
sounds as if you don't use any environment trickery at all, which got 
me curious.

If I'm completely mistaken about any of the above, please correct me...

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