EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On 27/03/2006, at 4: 15, Peter Ostry wrote:

>>> Tom Harrer wrote:
>>> Is anyone using the "Old Lady" piano sample set from Post Musical
>>> Instruments successfully?
>>> I would love to use this fine sounding piano, but there are always
>>> cut off notes in the lower registers.
>>
>> On 26.03.2006, at 09:38, Pete Thomas wrote:
>> Hmmm....I can't seem to get it to happen.
>
> Indeed a strange problem, I have this short notes also but cannot
> properly reproduce the failure. Right now I loaded the (full) Old
> Lady and played a quiet B1 which I know as problematic around a
> velocity of 20-30. And it was abruptly cut off after a second or so.
> But not when I played it again. I made a series of B1's in the score
> with increasing velocity - nothing. I played a lot of notes rather
> quickly - nothing, the B1 was ok. Then I played a short tune with
> pedal and everything and afterwards a single B1 it was cutoff at velo
> 17 and at 21 and played ok from now on.
>
> Maybe it has something to do with the huge number of samples and the
> memory handling of the EXS?
>
> ___
> Peter Ostry


Well, thank you to both Petes for testing this. I guess it must be  
possible to get the Old Lady to work.
My problem with cut off notes is so severe that I can't use this  
instrument. I would really like to know how to fix it...

I'm running a Dual 1.8 G5 with 2 Gigs of ram, OS 10.4.5 and Logic  
7.1.1. Should be more than enough for this piano. EXS is using  
virtual memory and consistently accumulates samples not loaded in  
time errors with the Old Lady.

Could it have anything to do with the samples being 48k?
Would EXS manager help? I did try the demo, as per instructions on  
the PMI site, with no improvement.

Cheers
Tom