EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 12-03-2004, randwman wrote:

>Once again,
>I don't know why the EXS (etc) doesn't just respond to midi's MSB 
>messages to get beyond the 128 prg limit?  I suppose one would hope 
>the MSB message could at least select a folder & a preset within...

128 banks of 128 programs would still give "only" some 16000 
programs.  Too little for quite a few users.  And such a system would 
require you to have folders with max. 128 sampler instruments, _and_ 
it would probably require you to not use nested folders (which would 
be utterly confusing -- which bank would a folder nested in a folder 
nested in a folder be?).

In other words: if they did what you ask, then within days people 
would find plenty of problems and shortcomings with the new system, 
and once more there would be something to complain about.  Heck, I 
already found 3 problems with your proposal even _before_ they 
implemented it :-).

Oh, and 4th problem: changing programs with a sampler isn't very 
practical.  If you have a busy song playing and then tell the EXS to 
load that 2 GB grand piano... well, good luck to you, but I'm quite 
sure Logic will simply grind to a halt and interrupt song-play. 
Better to have multiple pre-loaded instances of the EXS then...

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