EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi Julie,

You are absolutely correct in that this is a serious issue with the Logic/EXS 
approach. The two problems are that:

1.  EXS isn't multitimbral and doesn't have Key switching. ..(which would be 
OK if you had more Audio Instrument Tracks...but...)

2.  Logic doesn't have enough Audio instrument tracks to do this kind of 
work. Logic 5 will be increased to 32, but that's still almost nothing for 
doing orchestral work, where you have loads of patches set up all the time, 
and each one only plays a note here and there...which is how most composers 
now work with Gigastudio. (Of course, Cubase only has 8 audio instrument 
tracks....but Performer and Pro Tools is unlimited!)

I've talked to the Germans about this, but they just don't seem to understand 
how composers work this way. It's one of the only reasons that Giga is so 
popular amongst composers. The EXS is a very good sampler, the concept of 
this virtual system is better suited to pop/techno music, than flexible 
enough for serious orchestral work.

If the EXS was multitimbral like HALion is, (and streamed from disc)..that 
would solve a lot of these issues.

Eric Persing
Spectrasonics


In a message dated 12/7/01 6:08:34 AM, julielarson@... writes:

>Hi everyone,
>I think there is something wrong with my 
>paradym about using sample libraries.  
>Take one like Advanced Orchestra where 
>there are gads of different attacks and 
>articulations for each instrument.  It seems 
>like the pieces are there to build a plausibly 
>realistic sounding line...but it also seems 
>like since they are all in different patches 
>that it would require many different midi 
>channels to achieve this..a trill on one 
>channel, a half step slur on another, 
>section slides on another and of course 
>that one octave run...it could go on like this 
>until you didn't have any midi channels 
>left...what are you guys doing?  
>
>I recently bought the Quantum Leap Rare 
>instruments library for Akai...it was originally 
>programed for Gigasampler using a lot of 
>key-switching and as a result was very 
>"user friendly" So... the low Irish Whistle  
>was a single 95 meg patch in 
>gigasampler...In the akai version it's about 
>30 different programs ...I understand the 
>reasoning behind this programming...but 
>my destination is the EXS and fat programs 
>aren't a problem if you have the ram.  Is 
>key=switching  something peculiar to 
>Gigasampler...or is that something that I 
>could recreate in the EXS....Or... please 
>send me to someplace where these 
>questions are more appropriate.  Thanks
>
>julie
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