EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Sean McCoy wrote:
> The AMG site says Kick Arse Brass 2 will be released in July, adding muted
> brass and bari sax to the original instruments. Looks like they're going
> the VI route, however. Seems to be no way around it these days.

Yeah well, the main problem probably being that "patch + separate samples" formats can be converted all too easily.
A while ago, when I was on some "free soundfont hunting", I detected quite some soundfonts with their samples being named
suspiciously familiar.
Those large "monolithic" patches (as coming with GPO and quite a few other libraries) simply don't allow for easy patch conversion,
so chances of things being re-distributed out of context are pretty much more unlikely.

And while I do understand this from a sample developers point of view, it's just another example of copy protection getting in the
way of the user.
I expect quite fewer sample libraries to be released in EXS format in the future because of that as well. Which is a shame, as it's
still the most efficient playback machine.

- Sascha