EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Nick wrote:

>  >I've written many times that
>>a real-time performance interface is the next hurdle for sampling
>>technology. The sounds are certainly there, but you can't perform
>>them in real time yet.

From: Sean McCoy <osr@...>

>There just aren't enough knobs and buttons, fingers and feet available for
>the mind-boggling selections now available in the libraries---even with
>very clever programming. I see fancy foot controller boards in our future.
>We'll all start to look like harpists, changing pedal positions on the fly,
>and will need the limb independence of drummers.

It's more a matter of selecting the right articulation automatically, 
the way I see it. For example, if blew quickly into a breath 
controller, it could know to switch to an articulation with a harder 
attack or a rapid rise. Or if you start very slowly, it would know to 
switch to a program with a longer attack, etc. I've done some playing 
around with a rate of change controller without much success, but 
that's just because my programming skills aren't refined enough to 
make the programs respond well to a breath controller.

Some track-switching is always going to be necessary, but I think a 
lot of it could be done in real time. It's just a matter of some 
intelligence to know which of several keyswitch programs to switch to.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434