EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I wrote:

>  > Despite Evan Evan Evan Evans' great work, the subtext is that the
>>  present and future for the next few years (in my estimation) is in
>>  multi-computer set-ups if you want to run libraries that are way
>>  bigger than one machine can handle. And unfortunately you can't run
>>  EXS24 mk II (the one with streaming) simultaneously on multiple
>>  computers unless you want to buy a whole new Logic Pro package. It
>>  would be great if there were the equivalent of VStack for EXS, but
>  > there isn't.

From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril@...>

>First you forgot to say that if you use EXS with libraries like VSL, you can
>play huge score. The streaming with the EXS IS VERY VERY GOOD.

Yes, I've posted many times that the EXS' streaming is very good. And 
you're right, you can get a lot of mileage out of one machine.

And yet I have VSL running on two machines (a dual gig G4  with the 
max 1.5GB RAM and a Windows machine with 2GB - which lets you load 
just over 1GB into Giga) and still need to add at least one more. My 
other PC is running Kontact (EWQLSO), and that's even farther from 
being enough, since that library is so polyphony-intensive (because 
the recorded ambience keeps going when you let go of the note)!

As I've said before (and people doing this understand very clearly), 
the reason you want lots of machines is that even though you can 
*play* a whole orchestration with far less firepower than you 
actually end up using, you want your palette of articulations loaded 
up and ready to play. Otherwise it's like a violinist stopping, 
putting the violin down, picking up another one, adjusting the 
bow...every time he wants to switch from long to short bows. You 
don't want to stop to unload and reload instruments, in other words.

>A standalone Kompakt can play EXS !
>May be the solution is to have Logic and multiple Kontakt/Kompakt on a dual
>G5.(a new version of Kontakt just came out)

Yes, I just discovered yesterday that you can run multiple 
stand-alone Kompakts or Kontakts if you rename them! Pretty cool.

That's one solution, but I think ideally you still want at least two 
machines for VSL and more for other libraries.
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Nick Batzdorf
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