EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 03-10-2003, Joe Albano wrote:

>  > Aha, so you have, say, 3 hat samples on F1 and a foot sample on G1.
>>  Play F1 with cc1 full open, and while the note sounds you turn back
>>  the modwheel to "close the hat" (cycle through the 3 xfaded hat
>>  samples). Then at the end of that you trigger G1 for the foot-sound.
>  > Have I got that right?
>
>Yes, exactly. Also, if you play a closed hat with cc1 at 0, then
>immediately open the pedal, the hat _will_ open, (this seems to work better
>than most of the MIDI drum kits out there (including V-Drum) where if you
>hit a closed hat and then immediately open it you get nothing - a lot of
>drummers seem to do this, either by accident or design)..

Yeah, I played with the concept a bit, when I had 15 minutes to spare 
this afternoon, and it's indeed working amazingly well.  Mainly a bit 
of tweaking of the Select Range to fit your keyboard & playing 
style...  And all that with just 3 samples...  Cool.  I would have 
expected worse artefacts or something, but it sounds rather smooth if 
you handle the modwheel with some intelligence :).

>  > I don't really believe they're going to make a multi-EXS any time soon,
>>  so I wouldn't hold my breath..
>
>Yeah, it does look that way, doesn't it, though I really hope they do
>eventually - they're the _only_ soft-sampler lacking this feature!

And the only one lacking drag & drop, and a graphical editor, and... 
Oh well, I'll shut up :-).

>The other way for them to improve it would be simply to incorporate a _full
>range_ of (front-panel) settings for each Group

I might even prefer that to multitimbrality (which I somehow always 
find cumbersome to handle, but that's just my aging brain probably). 
Although I guess that in practice there's not much difference between 
both approaches (apart for the need to create special instruments for 
the non-multitimbral solution you propose).

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