EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Andrea,

A question for you about AutoSampler.

How will it handle patches with no decay, like leads? Will it truncate at a 
user defined time, or will it try to detect a possible loop point?

Will it do looping and crossfading for decadent patches like pianos? That 
would be killer, because, without it, you could probably fill up a 120Gig 
hard drive with one or two synths.

For example: A stereo piano sample with a 10 second decay generates a 1.5 
megabyte sample. Three velocity layers is 4.5MB. Sample every key (88) and 
you end up with nearly 400MB of samples! Sample every third key, and its 
down to 132MB, which is still huge. For a synth patch that probably takes 
1-2MB in the synth's memory.

So let's say we average out to about 50MB per patch. Of course some will be 
much bigger (like drumsets, and .... pianos), but others will be smaller 
(like synth leads, etc,). That means, in order for me to sample my Yamaha 
MOTIF Rack's entire set of 896 patches, I would need to allocate around 44GB 
of memory...

With crossfade looping, you could probably get it down under 10-20MB or so 
per patch. Still, even without looping its an excellent idea, and I'll be 
first in line!!!

Group buy in the plans? (I swear, every time I try to get my finances 
straightened out.....) Existing and very happy EXS Manager customer, btw!

Mark

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