EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 08:29 PM 11/14/03 +0000, you wrote:

>I just tried creating a patch based on your correspondence, and the
>result was not very satisfying. I've been trying to figure out weather EXS
>can crossfade between samples like the Giga for a while now - i have some
>beautiful patches that are very expressive and very playable in Giga
>format. EXS does NOT crossfade but "jump" between the samples - the 
>transition is very
>audible and un-musical. I created a very simple patch with three violin 
>samples
>of a same note (p, mp, f), assigned them to different groups (1-40, 41-79,
>80-127), selected 'controller 1' instead velocity in the EXS editor... And,
>yes - the instrument now switches between the three samples, but there is no
>crossfading at all, nothing smooth about the transition. Am I missing
>something or is this something EXS is not quite able to do right yet.

It can, which is good, but there's good news and bad news.

The Good News
Just adjust the XFade Amt parameter to larger numbers. It's on the second 
row under the Mark II insignia. What this specifically does is take your, 
for example, 41-79 and provides a ramp on both sides. A setting of 10 would 
start the fade in at 31 and go to 100% at 41, stay 100% until 79, and fade 
out until 89. You have a choice of three curves on the fades.

The (possible) Bad News
This parameter works in conjunction with the Sample Select global 
sub-system in EXS-24. So as you see, this works well for mod wheel crossfades.

The bad news is that you've used up your one "shot" at doing sample 
selects. Even though you can select multiple modulators using the 
SampleSelect parameter, you now have no ability to switch samples via 
(commonly) velocity or other means. This is not good, but of course, we may 
make a big deal out of that here, it's not really a big deal most of the 
time. It's wonderful to do one or the other, but it's discouraging because 
all the other switching/xfade samplers can do this.

Rumor has it that when the Emagic bigwigs were telling the employees on the 
other end of he phone that "we want this sampler to go GLOBAL," they didn't 
realize they dialed the wrong extension and that they were talking to 
Engineering, not Marketing. So Engineering made tons of the EXS_24 
parameters and sub-systems global in nature. Unfortunate mistake. =)

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User