EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 08:58 PM 8/21/2005 +0200, you wrote:
>I won't be able to answer your questions about good natural drums in EXS 
>format, but when it comes to drums, I can only recommend
>getting a dedicated drum sampler.
>Not only do they usually come with a good array of properly multisampled 
>and mapped kits - they will also make your life easier in a
>lot of other ways.
>The main thing being that tweaking of individual drum instruments inside a 
>kit is WAY easier than doing so inside the EXS.
>
>An example: You may want to route your velocity to sample start. That way, 
>say, a snare would only playback with the full "twang"
>when being hit hard. In the EXS such a modulation is only possible for the 
>complete set (and it might not make much sense on quite
>some instruments but snare, toms and kicks). In almost any dedicated drum 
>sampler you can easily set up these sorts of modulations
>on a "per key/instrument" base.
>
>Or well, another one: Try to detune a single snare or whatever. In the EXS 
>you'd have to enter the instrument editor, select the
>appropriate zone, alter the tuning and save the instrument under another 
>name. This is even getting worse when dealing with velocity
>layered snares as you'd have to do the tuning job for each zone. On a 
>dedicated drum sampler you'd just adjust it after selecting
>the appropriate "pad" and be done. No need to resave anything either as 
>everything will be saved with your songfile.
>
>The same goes for using multiple outs. You'd have to alter your EXS 
>patches and be stuck with the output assignments unless you'd
>resave the patch again. On a dedicated drum sampler this is done easily 
>and won't require resaving.
>
>As for now, there's two drum samplers I could recommend: NIs Battery 2 or 
>Linplugs RMIV. As said, both are coming with a good
>assortment of kits as well.
>If you got some time, you may want to wait for FXpansions Drum 9, which 
>might appear end of the year or so. Should be the "mother of
>all drumsamplers" if I got the teasers right.
>
>In any case, for anything drum/percussion related I couldn't live without 
>a dedicated sampler anymore.
>And btw, while both Kontakt and HALion do a better job on things such as 
>altering samples or assigning them to different outputs,
>they still don't come close to the comfort of using a drum sampler.
>
>Regards,
>Sascha
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Garth Hjelte
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