EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 10-05-2004, Sascha Franck wrote:

>Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
>>  Hmm... I feel tempted to say something about armchair programmers
>>  here :-)  The fact that the EXSP implements something doesn't
>>  necessarily say it's easy to implement the same feature in the EXS.
>
>No, this is no "armchair programmers" opinion. I can't say anything more as
>I signed an NDA once upon a time.

Well, I can't argue with that, can I? :)

>Apart from that, do you really think that Emagics superb programmers (which
>they certainly are) won't be able to implement MIDI program changes into
>their synths while almost every freebie developer is able to?

No, of course not: implementing program changes in itself should be a 
breeze.  However, in this case there's more to it: you'd need some 
sort of bank-edit window, bank-select mechanism, and then program 
changes per bank.  So it's not just "program changes".

>  > Still: the
>>  fact that you can have 20000 instruments _might_ have been the reason
>>  prog-changes were never implemented.
>
>And while it *might* have been the reason, it's no excuse. Just look at the
>way other virtual instruments do it.

OK, you got a point there...

>  > I don't use midi files :-).  And if I ever have to, I use a simple
>>  midifile player that utilises the GM-bank from the quicktime synth.
>
>I have to use MIDI files in some situations and even if I could use the
>Windows equivalent or my QY70, it's just not the same as if they were
>playing through proper patches (let alone the fact that MIDI file import is
>one of the most screwed up things ever... since ages that is).

Oh yes, *that's* a big one -- midifile import I mean.  I agree they 
totally screwed up on that one.

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