EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> when it comes to drums, I can only recommend getting a dedicated drum sampler.
Agreed... it would appear that as I venture tentatively into the world of
s/w samplers (such as EXS, Kontakt... whatever), they don't seem well suited
to drums and percussion.... or at least, solutions to simple requirements
seem very convoluted and long-winded (witness the recent thread on hi-hat
muting!).

Ironically, hardware samplers such as the Akais retained many of their
facilities purely to retain the ability to obtain strict control over drums
and percussion - individual envelopes per sample, separate filtering per
sample, assigning individual sample to different audio outputs, panning, FX
send, tuning and so on of individual samples, the 'mute-group' function
discussed recently, etc..

It would have made these lumps of hardware far more appealing and easier to
use if envelope, filtering and so forth had been made 'global' so that
edits/changes affected all keygroups/zones/layers (call them what you will)
equally as on a s/w sampler but this would have been a dead lost and totally
useless for drums.

However, it would appear that this is the paradigm adopted by s/w sampler
manufacturers - one change fits all. Of course, roll your sleeves up and
it's possible to fudge certain drum-related facilities but it seems you hve
to leap through several complicated hoops to achieve what would take just
seconds on a 1990 Akai sampler (there's 'progress' for you!)!

This 'global' approach to editing is ideal for *instrumental* sounds where
all the samples are essentially the same but it is lacking for drums and
percussion etc.. Software  drum samplers such as BATTERY, on the other hand,
seem to handle things much better in this respect as Sascha describes.

Or buy a hardware sampler that can handle both equally ;-)


Best regards,


Steve
http://www.hollowsun.com