EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi,

So I'm mapping up some hihat samples. I want the closed hat to mute the open hat (easy, 
assign both to a group, voice count to 1).

However, I want to be able to play the open hat polyphonically as it sounds much better.
There was a documented 'trick' from here a while ago that made this possible, and I'm 
trying to set this up but the behaviour of the EXS24 is strange.

The trick is this: add a new zone to play another sample on the same key as the closed 
hat. The volume of this sample will ultimately be zero but for now we'd like to hear it. So 
every time you play a closed hat, two samples/voices are playing.

Increase the number of voices on the group to two. Now when you play the open hat, it's 
two note polyphonic, but when you play the closed hat, as it plays two voices it should cut 
off any already sounding voices. You can increase the number of voices to 3,4 etc as long 
as you add extra null samples to the closed hat sound.

Now this is all well and good, and seems to work for loads of people, but not here. With 
the 2 voice example, if I hit the open hat and leave it to ring, then hit the closed hat, 
instead of the open hat stopping and the two closed hat samples playing instead, only one 
of the closed hat sounds (the lowest zone) and the other sample clicks. The open hat 
keeps sounding until it decays.

The EXS24 is not reassigning voices that are currently sounding in order to play new notes.

Is there something I'm missing to get this working?

This is Mac Logic 7.0. This behaviour is the same in Mac Logic Pro 6.4.2 and also exactly 
the same in PC Logic 5.5.1

SO it *must* be something I'm doing wrong, although I haven't a clue what...?

Many thanks for reading and help would be appreciated.