EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Hans Hafner <hanshafner@g...> wrote:
> At 9:50 Uhr +0000 24.01.2005, Pete Thomas wrote:
> >An alternative way of working which gives you a pseudo
> >multitimbral/multioutput drumkit is to create an old fashioned MIDI
> >instrument set to omni and cable this to multiple EXS24s each set to
> >receive on a unique channel.
> >

I use a variation on this theme, expressly for drums. I have 8 EXS tied to a midi object 
(which is where I record all the drums from on the arrange page), all on the same channel 
but each EXS set to play only one sound - kick, or hat, or snare, etc. I discovered that the 
first beat played always sounded late but if I inserted an I/O helper into each track - set to 
input 1+2 and then disabled - this delayed first beat issue was solved.


> Yes, the only problem is that most of my drums in the EXS are not 
> mapped the same was so then I have to do a lot of customisation every 
> time I use drums.

I spent a little time isolating all my kit pieces and creating a single EXS instrument for each 
one. I also use a mapped instrument just behind the midi object so if any sounds are in 
the 'wrong' place it's easy enough to simply drag the played note to the relevent EXS 
mapped note.


Another way is to have the same EXS instrument open in several instances at once. That 
way each kit piece has it's own track although this means it's not possible to 'play' the 
whole kit at any one time. Samples are pooled so opening more than one instance of the 
same EXS instrument shares the one sample set across all instruments.

A multitimbral EXS with effects would negate all this piddling around! I had high hopes for 
Ultrabeat until I opened it and wish I hadn't :)

 Maybe next upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, upgrade.....