EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Garth Hjelte wrote: I understand that playing an open hi-hat with repeated strikes sound like the hits fall into each other, and thus SOUND polyphonic. I still think your premise isn't the best, but if you want it that way... try this:

Zone 1  Open Hat        D2-D2   Group 1 (assigned 1 voice)
Zone 2  Open Hat        E2-E2   Group 2 (assigned 1 voice)
Zone 3 Closed Hat       B1-B1   Group 1 (assigned 1 voice)
Zone 4 [null]           B1-B1   Group 2 (assigned 1 voice)

You can play the open hats on different keys, which will sound like they fall into each other on repeated hits. B1 will cut both off.


This or the other solution, having silent notes that is only used to achieve whatever polyphony you have chosen, are great workarounds. If only it wasn't so irritating selecting all samples under a certain note I would say that there wasn't really much of a problem at all. I have used the workaround described above for a long time and I never really thought of it as a problem. I do agree that some features in the EXS are annoying but to me this is not the worst.

NB I had a S5000 until 3 years ago when I bought the EXS and to me it was just so much faster to work with so I don't miss anything from that machine.

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