EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 08-03-2004, artsguildinc wrote:

>  >I should mention that Logic tech support did offer a solution.
>>However, I feel that it's so impractical and unorthodox that it's not
>>even worth mentioning.  My plan -- until Logic offers a satisfactory
>>upgrade to the EXS24 -- is to record a single EXS24 (audio instrument)
>>track...violin, for example.  Then create as many other additional
>>tracks as necessary to accomodate the program changes I want:
>>sustained long notes, staccato, diminuendo, tremolo, etc...  I'll then
>>cut notes from my original track and paste them into the other EXS24
>>tracks I've created that have the programs I want.  After I've
>>completed this cut and paste separation of my violin track I'll bounce
>>them all together into a single audio track.  It sounds completely
>>ridiculous to have to even think of doing such a thing, but I don't
>>know of any better alternative.

It's not ridiculous, it's the way people do it every day all around 
the world. Again, program changes aren't going to make a real 
difference; the fundamental problem is that you still have to 
*program* music instead of performing it.


From: Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...>

>A better alternative along the same lines would be: create a channel
>splitter and cable it into max. 16 EXS instances.  Assign the channel
>splitter to the midi track.  Now open a Matrix window, with a
>floating event list.   In the Matrix select the notes you want to
>assign to e.g. the 3rd EXS, and in Event change their channel to 3.
>Sure beats having to cut & paste across different sequences -- both
>w.r.t. amount of work, and conceptually (since all notes remain in
>the original sequence).

Well, that would be a different way to do it in some situations, but 
not necessarily a better one when you're dealing with 100+ 
articulations loaded up at a time across multiple machines.

Yes it takes time to program music well, but splitting notes is not 
as big a deal as it sounds. You have a screenset with an Arrange 
window on the left and a Matrix (or whatever) editor on the right; 
select the notes, click on the destination track in the list on your 
left, and Paste at Same Position.*

It's close to mandatory to have two monitors (or one very large one), 
but that's just part of the overhead.

* MasterTracks Pro had a feature 5000 years ago that would be great: 
an All button that selected all underlying MIDI data - i.e. all 
associated controller data - when you selected notes or a region in 
their Matrix-equivalent window.
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