EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hey Andrea,

My name is Willie Dowling and I¹ve been using your programme  EXSManager Pro
(I¹m currently v 2.9.2) for some time now.

I compose music mostly for film and television (www.williedowling.co.uk)
interjected with occasional band projects, and I¹m just about to start a new
film wherein one of the key instruments is a Welsh pump organ. This is
comprised of all home made samples which I recently, for the very first
time, crudely imported the samples into an EXS24 instrument. No looping,
nothing complex. Just simple import each sample to a Zone on each key note I
sampled, tell the sample the range of notes it is to play over, even out the
volumes a little and make minor adjustments to sample start times, and
that¹s about it. And it works ok. Sustain a note too long and it just stops
of course, but the thought of learning how to loop over each sample is too
daunting and time consuming.

But I¹ve been following the recent traffic in the Logic user groups with
interest, and it seems that your keymap one (if I¹m right in what I think
I¹ve understood!) is the intelligent and simple way to do this kind of
import job much more efficiently. I should stress that for the most part I
rely on my rather huge music library which I use within EXS24 and rarely
even edit sounds, let alone create my own, but I do have a number of folders
of wav samples of various instruments , including the pump organ, that are
currently unused simply because I¹m not that experienced in creating my own
EXS instruments from scratch, and whenever I¹ve tried it seems extremely
time consuming.

Would I be correct in thinking that this new program of yours would be ideal
for me, and is it really as simple as people are suggesting, given that not
only am I inexperienced at this kind of thing, I am also intensely lazy!

I would appreciate any advice you may have.

I run a G5 quad OSX 10.4.8, using Logic Pro ver 7.2.3 combining a DAE-TDM
environment with core audio.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Willie Dowling
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> At the 123rd AES Convention in New York, Redmatica unveiled Keymap
> One V1.5, the newest entry in the Redmatica Keymap family of sampled
> instruments editors for Mac OSX.
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> Keymap One 1.5 delivers the key features and workflow of the flagship
> Redmatica Keymap 1.5 instrument editor, including Logic 8
> integration, at a groundbreaking price for users that simply do not
> need all the hi-end features of Keymap, but still want to use the
> most modern sampling environment available today.
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> The integration with Logic is made through a new Organizer Window
> which shows the active editing sessions between the two applications,
> and instruments can be sent back and forth with a single click. The
> list of supported file formats includes EXS24, GarageBand, Ultrabeat
> (.ubs) and EXS24-Monolithic, a new format where each instrument and
> its samples are stored as a single file. The EXS24 format is one of
> the most supported formats in the industry, and directly imported by
> Native Instruments Kontakt, Digidesign Structure, Motu MachFive2 and
> Steinberg Halion.
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> Keymap One offers a sophisticated workflow, export of the processed
> samples directly by drag and drop, built-in Sample and Loop editors,
> a Setup editor for combining and merging instruments, and extended
> key commands support. Keymap One provides the same powerful
> Autolooping functions of Keymap, so that samples can be easily looped
> with a minimum effort.
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> Pricing & Availability
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> Keymap One 1.5 is available starting today, at a suggested retail
> price of 100.00 Euro (roughly 150.00 USD) from the Redmatica Web
> Store and authorized distributors.
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> More informations about system requirements, pdf manuals and videos
> can be found at www.redmatica.com.
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> Best Regards
> Andrea at Redmatica
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