EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Garth Hjelte <garth@c...> wrote:
> At 05:48 PM 7/30/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
> When I saw the word "prize", of course I took the time to check this.

Of course I may have been fibbing about the prize bit :)
 
> I can confirm your results, it's not the oldest note but I guess there's a 
> preference if a new note needs more voices - it'll only allocate for the 
> present requirement. It's almost "newest note" but not quite.

Ok, so it's not just me. Phew! Interesting. It also means the old polyphonic hihat trick as 
posted hee and on the LUG before has never and will never work. So (unfortunately) I 
guess it's something I have to live with...

> BTW, I tried this with the global voices and the group voices params.

Yep, me too, it works the same for both.

> So it's a bug in the EXS IF Apple claims oldest note behavior. Otherwise 
> it's part of the feature set. 

I don't think they claim anything, it's just odd behaviour :(

> Your workaround would be to merge the samples 
> together and stick with 1-voice normal cutoff behavior.

The whole reason for following the tip was in order to *not* be bound by the 1-voice 
normal cutoff. It's a shame because this whole live drum setup is working beautifully apart 
from those *nasty* monophonic closed hats. Yuk! :(

I can have poly hats but not be able to close them with a closed hat, so either way it's not 
a satisfactory compromise. I will investigate some other solutions, and if anyone has any 
brainwaves, please do shout... :D

Thanks Garth though, I appreciate the time you've taken to respond. 
I can now stop tearing my hair out!