EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 09:54 AM 21/01/02 -0500, Ned wrote:

>Thanks for the get-a-PC-as-second-computer advice, 
>but I won't.

What I wrote was -- of course -- not only for you but anyone who's
interested in Giga and trying to work with gigs on the EXS 24. The second
computer thing is really the way to go with GigaStudio -- you can run it on
the same machine as Logic but really it needs it's own system to run
properly. Most PC users who are serious about Giga run it on a second
machine. I run it on my internet machine.

>I was wondering though, how do people who use both 
>a Mac and a PC manage their work space? I mean, 
>aren't we talking double computer keyboards, 
>double mice (oh-oh, now which do I click now?), 

Two ways to go -- the full duplication (that's what I do) or get a KVM
switch and run both machines off a single keyboard and mouse and one or a
pair of monitors -- if you KVM will handle two monitors.

>And then there's the whole issue of how one 
>manages to, for eg, compose a piece that use 
>strings from the Gigasampler, and a softsynth bass 
>line from Absynth on their Mac, both triggered 
>from the same Logic sequence, etc. It just seems 
>so bloody complicated, no?

You might think of the second machine as like a hardware synth or sampler
-- the master machine sends midi to it down a standard midi cable and
instead of pressing tiny buttons around some crappy little interface screen
I have a full monitor, keyboard and mouse for all editing and patch
building and saving. 

>Why not just convince the company, in this case 
>GigaStudio, to make a Mac version, or simply make 
>EXS support the Giga format?

I seem to remember (vaguely)  that there was going to be a Mac version at
some stage -- Tascam owns Nemesys and therefore GigaStudio now -- perhaps
they will do it for OSX. You could email them.

Gig file support in the EXS 24 is definitely a good idea -- once the
disk-streaming EXS24 version arrives -- is it in V5 afterall? Was it shown
at NAMM I wonder?

>My less-than-3-per-cent-of-the-market 2 cents.

Are you coming from a "they'll have to rip the one-button mouse from my
cold dead fingers" sort of position?

I respect that - kind of ;-)

Ciao,
Murray