EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Nick Batzdorf wrote:

> Sorry for being sloppy and just pasting the whole thread below, but 
> there's some confusion here and I want to straighten it out.

Thanks for straightening this out. I don't actually have a TDM system. 
But I have done some work recently for a client setting up his EXS 24 , 
the DTDM environment, and ESB plugin; so it was somewhat fresh in my 
mind at the time. At least the basics of it anyway :-)

> First, Logic has 64 Audio Instruments available, and you can put ESX24s 
> on all of them (on DTDM auxes) *in addition to* the ones on DAE tracks. 

Good to know. I thought you needed a special TDM version of the EXS in 
order to run them directly on DAE tracks.

> The other difference between TDM and DTDM EXS24s is that you also have 
> fewer channels when you use TDM objects. I believe the limit is 16 
> stereo channels of this DirectConnect stuff, i.e. I have 12 stereo EXSs 
> and four stereo ESBs on TDM objects; if I remove two ESBs I can set up 
> two additional EXS24s. This would have to do with the number of Auxes 
> allowed. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here as well.

This seems to make sense.

> My Autoload has 63 + 12 stereo EXS24s set up, and only one DirectConnect 
> chip is being used. That's in addition to the two chips being used 
> already: one for the Mix Engine and one for the StereoMixer24. What's 
> more, deleting all the TDM EXS24s has no effect the TDM chips. So I 
> don't think it's accurate to say that this is DSP-intensive, since it 
> takes up one DirectConnect chip either way.

Good to know. I knew the actual ESB/Direct Connect plugins were pretty 
DSP hungry. But I didn't know what kind of DSP was involved in running 
EXS's straight in your DAE/TDM mixer. Good to know it doesn't take up 
any extra DSP. I'll advise my client on this new found information.



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