EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I am happy with the latest version of the EXS24 but I have 4 wishes 
for improvement... I sincerely hope that the Developers at Emagic 
read this list....

1. I have over 10,000 instruments that are in my sampler instruments 
folder. Call me crazy, but I like it this way.  Logic takes about 5 
minutes to start up while scanning this folder (on a G4 400). Also, 
sometimes in the middle of working, the mouse pointer will turn to an 
hourglass and I will be locked out of the program for a few minutes 
while it does some thinking... I am a programmer and I would be 
willing to bet that the developers are using some kind of iterative 
hierarchical data structure (tree) to store all of your instruments 
in that neato little flip menu and whenever you do anything that 
might change it (like saving a new instrument) it has to re-scan or 
traverse that entire tree which is a complete waste of time... One 
elegant solution would be to remove the need for pre-scanning (which 
I am guessing is a limitation due to the fact that plugins must get 
their resources from pre-defined folders) and replace the flip menu 
with a standard Mac OS dialog that allowed you to load the instrument 
from anywhere on your hard drive, CD roms, etc...

2. When editing an instrument, pressing a key on the keyboard should 
play that instrument, whether you are on the right track in the 
arrange or not... just my opinion.... Also it would be nice to be 
able to audition the instruments from the "open" dialog (if we ever 
get one) without having to load them...

3. (Artistic request - hence most important) On the topic of VELOCITY 
ZONES.  Ok, so as of this moment they allow you to set 
velocity "windows" for zones and groups, which is ok, but they can do 
better.  For example, if you have zones with overlapping velocity 
windows then when velocity is in that overlap area, the zones should 
be mixed together... as it is right now, it seems one arbitrarily 
plays over the other, probably in reverse zone order....  The ideal 
situation would be one in which you didn't even have to specify these 
zones, but could just say "OK here's the three samples for this key 
range, crossfade inbetween them as I play harder".  In reality, 
instruments don't "switch" between loud and soft tones, they FADE 
from one to the other... actually, it's more like they MORPH, but I 
would accept FADING.

4. get rid of hard coded limitations... for example, there is no way 
to have a sound get softer as you play harder.  Sample start point 
can't be set to move closer to the beginning of the file as you play 
softer etc... there are probably 10 other artificial constraints like 
this that seem arbitrary and pointless... 

Thanks for making a great product, and I hope my voice is heard when 
developing the next revision... Thanks!!!