EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Trying to catch up with 1+ month of LUG/EXS mail, but the new msgs 
keep coming in faster than I can read them...  Anyway, no-one seems 
to have answered this one yet, so here goes...

On a fine day, 12-10-2004, joselo fortanell wrote:
>Hi,i want to use my ibook in live performance with the
>EXS24, but i dont know how....i need to split my
>keyboard and play diferents sounds for example:
>strings in the left part of the keyboard, and a brass
>section in the right...is posible?...thanks for your
>help...Jose from Mexico

If you need just a few of these split-setups, the easiest way is to 
create custom 'split instruments'.  Open an EXS and load the strings. 
Click the edit button to open the Instrument editor.  Now in the EXS 
load the brass, and again click the edit button to open a 2nd edit 
window.  Copy all zones from the strings window (select all, copy), 
and paste in the brass window.  Save under a new name.  Adjust the 
zone lengths from the respective instruments so that brass and 
strings don't overlap.
Before copying/pasting you might to make sure that both instruments 
have all  their zones assigned to a group (brass-group and 
strings-group).  These carry over when copy/pasting, which 
facilitates selecting e.g. all strings-zones when you start adjusting 
zone-lengths.

And alternative to the above would be: create a transformer, set it 
to "Condition Splitter" and set the Conditions part to select the 
lower note range (like C-2 to C3).  Cable the 1st outlet into the 1st 
mixer strip with an EXS (strings) and cable the 2nd outlet to a 2nd 
mixer strip with an EXS (brass).  In both mixer strips, insert an I/O 
plug-in, and in the plug-ins, pick some input and output (don't leave 
them at the default '---').  Now disable both IO plug-ins.  Assign an 
arrange track to the transformer.  Put Logic in play mode, and you 
should be able to play both EXS's simultaneously.  Disadvantage: some 
latency, and Logic has to be in play mode for this trick to work.

Other alternative: upgrade to Logic 7 and repeat the above trick, 
leaving out the IO plug-ins.  Seems to work. I'm not sure about Logic 
having to be in play mode or not then...

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