EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Now I'm confused - aren't these GUI settings retained when you do a 
"save as instrument", or am I confusing this with something else?  I 
haven't been doing a lot of work with the EXS lately, so I'm a bit hazy 
on the details.
- Lenny

Sascha Franck wrote:

>Paul,
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>The plugin settings are somewhat "ambivalent" when it comes to the EXS.
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>In general, everything done in the EXS editor is saved inside the *.exs files. And, on a sidenote, everything done in the EXS editor
>*has* to be saved as recalling a song won't do the job (pretty much as stupid as it could get, especially when you're working with
>"songbased" instruments).
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>Now, everything done on the EXS GUI is saved along with the song and can be saved as a plugin setting. To avoid confusion (as if
>things weren't confusing enough allready): Nothing done in the EXS editor will be saved with a plugin setting!
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>In addition, you'll get a third option to apply the GUI settings to the *.exs file (found in the GUIs option menu).
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>When to save as what is another question and there's some reasons to do it this or that way:
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>- In older Logic versions there's been a limit of instruments accessable. Should you be using more instruments, saving slight
>GUI-altered variations of existing ones as plugin settings could've been a good idea.
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>- Not applying any GUI settings to the actual *.exs patch could be of benefits too, as you could adjust the GUI on whatever patch,
>then call up another instrument and the GUI would just stay as it was on the previously loaded patch. Let's say you had a pad with
>some nice modulation settings loaded and wanted to transfer those to another pad - impossible in case the other pad had some GUI
>settings applied allready. Working fine in case there weren't any...
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>Anyways,  even if the "GUI copy" thing might be useful at times, generally the approach of having different file types for one
>plugin is lame. Just as lame as the fact that you have to save each and every instrument, even if you only plan to use it on one
>particular song. There's no other softsampler requiring such stupid actions.
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>Regards,
>Sascha
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 Lenny Stearns                                     lens@...
 Alexandria, Virginia
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