EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 04:03 PM 12/27/01 -0500, you wrote:

>>Hello.  Just wondering if its possible to apply EXS settings (eg. filter,
>>LFo etc...) in the same instrument to individual samples.  Right now when i
>>change the settings they affect all the samples in my instrument.  If anyone
>>can be of assistance....
>It's a drag, I know, but that is correct. The filters are global. The EXS,
>in many respects, is a synth driven by sampled waves. Perhaps they'll add an
>additional filter level that is sample-specific.

Sorry for nit-picking, but the filter can somewhat be altered to the Zone 
level by using Groups - there's a alteration of the global setting for the 
cutoff and the resonance, as well as for the amplitude envelope (the ADSR 
part).

There isn't any way to do LFO's filter envelopes, mono-poly, etc. to the 
zone level, though. I can't wait until EXS 5.0 (whatever it'll be called) 
does this. It'll invalidate a bunch of programming on our end, but who cares...

>You should remember that
>filters place a heavy load on the CPU and having one on each sample could
>theoretically overload the CPU in only one instrument instance. The work
>around for what you're after is opening the same instrument in two
>instances. Any change to the filter setting to a specific instance is saved
>with the song, not the instrument, unless you overwrite the instrument
>settings; so you can open the same instrument on various tracks for various
>filter treatment. Stating the obvious here I know, but...

That's true - but there's every other soft-sampler that can do that. Why 
not the EXS?

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User