EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

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> Nick Batzdorf wrote:


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> From: Murray McDowall <murraymc@...>
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> >Yep - definitely all or nothing.
> >
> >Welcome to the wonderful world of EXS24 - any colour you want so long as
> it's
> >grey.
>
> I don't think that's fair. EXS24 works extremely well, with 
> substantially lower CPU than anything else on the Mac. If you really 
> want to run one EXS from RAM, set up a RAM disk and copy the samples 
> you want to run in RAM onto it. But the reason you use streaming is 
> to use longer samples than can fit into RAM, so I can't see any 
> earthly reason to want to do that.



I happen to like grey ;-) 
Funny thing - what's left of my hair even turned that colour ...

Seriously though - EXS24 is very stable and I use it all the time in Logic PC.
However, if you compare it with some of its competitors,  the rate at which it
is being developed is glacial. The issues with the instrument editor - no drag
and drop etc - If EXS24 was a third party product its makers would have gone
out of business because of lack of response to customers wishes and problems.

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> I think that EXSs talking to each other is a good thing. It means 
> that shared samples between multiple programs only get loaded once.
>
> >Mac Users should start a fund to get Rene of RGC audio a Mac so he 
> >can port SFZ
> >and what its goint to evolve into to the Mac.
>
> Or just run samples on a Windows machine and shorten your Logic 
> loading time.  :)



Sure - but then you have issues with PDC etc to contend with. 

The reason I mentioned SFZ - an extremely high quality soundfont player (kicks
the EXS24's ass convincingly on pitch shifting )  that is *FREE* is that you
can, on a per instrument basis, use Disk Streaming or several different RAM
loading modes. RGC has a version with more features -SFZ+-  which is pretty
cheap too and Rene intends to bring a sample based synth to market which
exploits the power of this samping engine. 

Rene is currently putting the finishing touches on his own instrument
definition spec - SFZ format -- and it has an extensive range of features. The
format is in the form of a text file so anyone with a text editor can define
instruments as the spec is published. An editor for building instruments is
coming too. Hopefully CDXtract and Translator will support this new open format
too and then we will have a very powerful and superb sounding sampling system
with access to lots of sampled material.

Will it come to the Mac? Maybe sometime. The problem to date: RGC is in
Argentina where there is inadequate support from Apple for Rene to supply and
support products for that platform. This is one of the problems with Apple -
they just don't have a worldwide presence - South Africa and many other
countries are out of the Apple loop. 

Regards,
Murray