EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Craig Beaumont wrote:
> On 8/23/05 5:19 AM, "Sascha Franck" <S.Franck@...> wrote:
>
> >I only "demix by note pitch" (another lousy implementation in Logic,
>
> I happen to like and use that function a lot, Sascha. How would you improve
> it?

I haven't tried this in Logic7 yet, but so far it has been that a new track has been created for a) each note pitch (which is to be
expected) and b) each part - which is just as stupid as things can get. Usually I have like around 20-40 drum parts in my songs.
Now, let's assume each one would only use 4 pitches (kick, snare, 2 hats). After demixing 20 parts with 4 pitches each I'd end up
with 80 (in words: EIGHTY!!!) new tracks. And we all know that both 4 instruments and 20 parts aren't exactly a lot.
Ok, as I know of this problem, I could just merge all the parts together - but hello, where's all my custom namings, my custom
colorings and, most of all, my nicely trimmed parts that I can just copy around easily? Right on, they're freaking lost!
As said, this function is completely fucked up, there's no sense in calling it anything else.

On a funny sidenote: It has been just 100% the same in Cubase (who was stealing from whom?), and nobody has EVER been able to
explain this behaviour (easy: there's no need to explain extended dumbness). However, this is now fixed in Cubase SX and each pitch
extracts to one track only, regardless of how much source parts there are.

In addition, a function that I'd really like to see in Logics transformer (again, it's there in Cubases Logical Editor...) would be
"extract to selected track". Of course, I could just open and select a bunch of events in any other editor, cut them out and paste
them straight to a track, using "paste at original position", but once you used the function in Cubase you'd just love it. Can't be
any easier to extract, say, a snare to a separate track (and there's many other uses imagineable, such as extracting controller data
to separate tracks, something I'm doing quite often, etc...).
But then, for drums a proper demix function would most likely be sufficient, it's just that Logic doesn't do this properly.

Regards,
Sascha