EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 7/30/05 3:01 PM, "des5080" <des5080@...> wrote:

> 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.


I see.  Ok, here is another suggestion that goes one step further.

Setup 2 separate EXS programs.  One of them is a plain open & closed hi-hat
with 1-note polyphony.  The other is the same open hat but instead of the
closed-hat, it¹s a silent note.

Then instanciate three separate EXS instruments ­ load one with the original
program and two with the modified program.

Use an environment midi instrument for your track.  Route its midi output to
a note splitter and split the closed-hat notes into a separate cable.  Put
that into a cable doubler to get three of them, and route them to all three
EXS instruments.

Then route the other output of the note splitter (with the open hi-hat
notes) to a an object that sequentially or randomly sends them to each of
three separate cables (I know there is an object that will do this ­
probably a fader, maybe a transformer, I¹m not sure which but it can be
done).  Take those three cables and route them to the three EXS instruments.

This way each open-hat note will go randomly to the three different EXS
instruments resulting in polyphonic open hats, and the close-hat note will
go to all of the three EXS instruments, resulting in one closed-hat that
cuts off any open hats in that EXS, plus two silent closed-hats that cut off
the open hats in the other two EXS.

Then you can use the mixer controls to change the EQ or levels or pans of
the three hi-hats to get some good variations in sound.

What do you think?

* Dave