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Re: [EXS] Garritan Personal Orchestra samples

2004-03-12 by Sam Ward

Steve:

I don't have kontkt and I'm new to Logic. I would  like to forward this 
to Gary Garritan and see what his response is about using the GPO in 
Logic Audio Pro. Would this be o.k.with you?

Steve Schow wrote:

>
> >
> > Thanks, Steve:
> >
> > I guess this means I get the Kontakt version for LApro and drop it in
> > the appropriate folders and the EXS sampler shows it as .exs
> > files. . .
> >
> >
>
>
> Uhhmmm..  I don't own EXS (yet)...so I don't know that much about it yet.
> But does EXS read Kontakt sample files?  Plus I think the GPO files are
> encrypted somehow to only work with kontakt.
>
> Even if you can read the files in EXS..I don't think its going to work 
> right
> for you that way.  GPO is designed to be a black box that just works.  But
> inside there is a LOT going on.  Different controller messages and key
> velocity, etc..are all being used to control various parameters of the 
> sound
> which in all liklihood will not translate to an EXS sampler.  They did 
> a lot
> of tweaking, using kontakt programming features to make a 2GB sample 
> library
> sound like a 20GB library..  I really think you would lose that with 
> EXS...
>
> That being said, it includes its own AU plugin that you drop into your
> plugins folder and instantly have an orchestra available.  Or if you own
> kontakt, you can use that and point it at the GPO sample files..and will
> work exactly the same, except you'd have access to the parameters to tweak
> as you want.
>
> Of course, if you're used to tweaking with EXS and perhaps
> automatation...well that just isn't there yet. 
>
> The other thing I would do is send off a message to support@...
> and talk to Garth about what his product can translate.  I'm sure he knows
> all about GPO and he can tell you for sure if you can translate 100% 
> to EXS.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
>
>
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