EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, David Gordon <music-pro@c...> wrote:

> How about this idea?  set the EXS up with 3 voices on one group ­ use to
> play your open hi-hats.  Add an additional note to your EXS that plays
> completely silent when it¹s triggered.  Then route the midi instead of
> direct from the track to the EXS, through a transformer object.  Set it so
> when a close-hat note is received, it ouputs the closed hat note, plus two
> more notes to trigger the silent sound you added.  That way when you play
> the closed hat the the three new notes will use up all the polyphony and
> only the one new closed-hat note will sound, the others will be silent...

Thankd for the suggestion - nice to get our collective brains working on this :D

This is in principle exactly what I was trying to do, and it's *exactly* the thing that doesn't 
work, although you'd expect it would.

Instead of all the new notes using up the polyphony and silencing existing open hats, the 
open hats continue to sound and only the voices you have left will triggering on the new 
notes.

Maxing the polyphony on your group to silence allready playing notes *does not* work, as 
confirmed by myself and Garth - regardless of whether you are maxing the voice count by 
layering multi-voice silent samples or triggering extra single notes - the effect is the 
same.

The only way existing notes are cut off correctly by new ones that I can see is if the voice 
parameter (either on the group or globally) is set to 1.