EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On Nov 9, 2004, at 8:51 PM, benbidlack wrote:

>  Is anyone out there using the EXS-24 (mk II) to play back Gigastudio
>  samples/libraries. I have a lot of Gigastudio samples and am
>  thinking of translating them (via Chicken Systems Translator) to the
>  EXS format, and just using them in Logic Pro 7. It sure would be
>  nice to having everything in one machine.
>
>  But i'm concerned about whether Logic can handle the larger samples
>  without latency and/or performance problems.

As with translating any sampler format to another, you lose some of the 
programming due to different feature sets available on the different 
samplers. It's never perfect. Having said that, in my experience most 
Giga to EXS conversions work very well. With the more modern larger 
libraries however, you'll lose things such as triggering release 
samples. Although key switching seems to translate pretty well.

As far as larger samples, the disc streaming works very well in Logic 
with the EXS 24. Latency will not be an issue of sample size or amount; 
but related to other factors involving sound cards and buffer settings, 
etc. As far as performance; these machines have a finite amount they 
can do. As you tax them more heavily, something has got to give 
somewhere. Either buffers go up, or you freeze or bounce some tracks, 
or bus or subgroup out more plugins, etc.

I should qualify my above observations with the fact that my 
experiences with Giga to EXS conversions have all been through the 
built in EXS conversion routines. I haven't used Translator for the 
conversions. It's possible it will convert more of the parameters than 
the native conversion does. I doubt it, but I don't know for sure.


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Eli Krantzberg
http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com
Almat Productions



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