EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 10.03.2004, at 16:58, Nick Batzdorf wrote:

> 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.

I never tried a breath controller but this problem sounds more like a 
matter of sampling than of programming. It is similar with keys: 
hammering down very fast should select a "harder" sample.

As far as I know wind's and reed's producing a soft tone (long attack) 
is never loud and a sharp blow mostly results in a louder tone. If you 
can live with this than the usual velocity switching with two or more 
zones will work reasonable.

There is certainly an over-proportional amount of work necessary to get 
a more realistic behavior. I believe in real live it is very hard to 
play a gentle but high tone on a transverse flute because you need some 
pressure. And sometimes those tones have more breath noise than 
auditable pitch. You see were we are going - it's the direction of the 
huge sample libraries of these days.

I am not sure if I should work many many hours to force an EXS nearer 
to Andersons's flute on a much harder way than Ian Anderson himself - I 
haven't even a flute :-)


Peter Ostry