EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Eli Krantzberg <elik@v...> wrote:
> 
> On Jun ,29, 2005, at 9:41 PM, tony vincent wrote:
> 
> > after you have programmed a drum kit, how do you all process each drum 
> > in
> >  the mix stage?  do you all separate the MIDI information (that goes 
> > to the
> >  exs kit), bouncing it to disc and the process each drum independently?
> >  that¹s how i¹ve done it in the past- but there really HAS to be an 
> > easier
> >  way for this....
> 
> I don't think there's any one magic soloution. But there is certainly 
> no need to actually print each part as audio first.
> 
> I usually just create multiple instances of the same EXS instrument, 
> and then separate the midi information as needed. Sure it uses up more 
> EXS instruments, but it doesn't really take up any significant 
> additional system resources. You still have all the data as midi, so it 
> is editable up to the end; and you can process the different EXS 
> instruments as needed. I also often output them all to a bus to act as 
> a subgroup where I can apply some general processing to all of them at 
> once, and control the overall pre-mixed drumkit level - the best of 
> both worlds.
> 
> Alternatively you can use the multiple output/aux feature; but to tell 
> you the truth, unless you're setting up a template for repeated use, it 
> seems like more work to me than just splitting the midi information 
> across several instances of the same instrument. And you don't need to 
> deal with the latency issues of putting plugins on auxes. Yeah, yeah, I 
> know PDC in L7.1 takes care of that. But that's also not so simple; 
> there are other issues the full PDC option brings to the party that 
> need to be dealt with. I prefer to just keep it ol' skool:-)
> 
> 
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> Eli Krantzberg
> http://www.nightshiftorchestra.com
> Almat Productions

If you do want to use the multichannel (wich is once you've done it and got used to, very 
time efficient), here's what you do:
-Use the Exs24 multichannel plug in
-in the instrument editor, add groups for the different drums: kick, snare, toms hh/ 
cymbals etc. Route these groups to different stereo or mono Exs outputs. (Within the 
"group-box")
- create aux objects in the environment, and select at the input-box one of your Exs 
output groups. Done!