EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Murray McDowall [mailto:murraymc@...] :
>Take a look at Drumkit From Hell Superior - just 
>released by Toontrack of Sweden. It has 35 GB of 
>samples on 9 DVDs and its own very sophisticated 
>sample engine. To get around this repetition 
>of attacks problem it works like this: 
>for a give drum hit (eg stick on snare): 
>rather than a simple velocity switched set 
>of 16 or 32 samples  it divides the 
>velocity range into three parts -- Soft, 
>Gradient and Hard. A whole set of say 10 samples 
>are recorded for each of these groups. 

Imagine the amount of (streaming) data you would need to follow this
approach for a sampled piano... I guess someone will come up with a
sophisticated softsampler built for piano. Michiel Post already packaged
his Bösendorfer in Kontakt, although his reasons may be different.

Herbert Boland
herbert@...
www.zepmusic.com