EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> From: Per Larsson <per@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:15:05 +0100
> To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [EXS] Anyone worked with releasesamples on pianos or translated giga
> piano libs?
> 
> Hi group.
> 
> I'm currently working on a ESX version of the White Grand, and
> everything works great except for the release samples.
> In Giga, HALion and Kontakt you can set parameters so that the volume of
> a release sample is related to how long you have pressed the key before
> releasing.
> If I play a staccato note on the piano, I want the release sample to
> sound louder then if I press a key, hold it down for a couple of
> seconds, and then releasing it.
> You can select "Key Release" in the group window for Trigger On, and
> that triggers the releasesamples, but they come out with the same volume
> regardless how l,ong you have held the key down prior to release.
> In the group window there's also two parameters connected to the "Key
> Release"; Decay and then a checkbox without a name.
> I figured out the Decay, it's a kind of release, but the checkbox..????
> Nothing in my paper manual (but that's for EXS24, and no release samples
> where implemented in that version) and nothing in the ReadMe pdf that
> came with the update.
> Anyone that can shed any light on this..??????
> If anyone have translated some other piano lib that uses release
> samples, or bought a EXS24 version of a piano that uses release samples,
> does the releasesamples work properly in those cases?
> 
> Best,
> Worra
> www.sampletekk.com

Actually, no, they usually don't work correctly.  I looked into it deeper
and noticed that either my Korg Trinity which I'm using as the input device
has a fixed release velocity of 64, or Logic just defaults to that release
velocity no matter what is input.  My workaround was to manually adjust the
releases (huge task) to lower or higher values depending on the passage and
that helped, but way too time consuming for any practical use.

I would suggest you email Emagic.  This is a big problem and puts the EXS at
the back of the class as far as modern software samplers go.  The problem
effects many libraries from the Sam brass libraries to the VSL and beyond.
It's not the end of the world, but for a sequencer that makes the claims to
greatness that EXS does, it's time they added this feature.

Best,
James Ryan