EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thank you Garth, Hendrik and Bernard for your insightful answers. You were 
all correct - I did not dial in the XFade amount. That should take care of it 
then.

Cheers,

Damir


--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Garth Hjelte <garth@c...> wrote:
> 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