EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

From: ArtsGuildInc@...

>  In my estimation, this makes the EXS24 almost unuseable,
>or at least extremely cumbersome to use.   Automating spontaneous program
>changes for playback is part of the essence of what professional 
>sequencing is all
>about.   Anything less is kid stuff.

I have no problem with your wanting program changes, but isn't that 
kind of OTT? You can just use keyswitches or multiple EXS instruments 
on different tracks - you have 64 of them (plus TDM), after all - to 
do the same thing. As a matter of fact, you might even be able to use 
a Transformer object to convert program changes to keyswitch notes.

I personally haven't used a program change in decades, because I find 
them cumbersome, and I don't like to use them beyond the initial 
set-up for a sequence ("Send Used Instruments," or whatever it's 
called). So it's all a matter of the way you like to work, not kid 
stuff.

EXS has a very efficient streaming engine, and it works really well. 
If you want to see unusable, try pounding on some other Mac samplers 
the way you can with EXS.
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Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434