EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Eli Krantzberg wrote:
> I haven't ever used any settings with EXS instruments before yours. Is it
> normal that when you call up one of the settings patches, it automatically
> calls up the corresponding instrument?
>
> If it is normal, this would seem odd. By odd I mean the fact that the
> instrument itself and the settings are somehow tied together; and that you
> can't call up the settings with a different instrument.

At first I wondered about all that as well, I allways thought the "plugin
settings" would only affect the UI settings. But then, as the EXS is
somewhat different in terms of saving sounds, it's all understandable.
And, just think about, if the plugin preset menu would only contain UI
settings, how often would you use it? I would most likely stick to the EXS
instrument selector then.
And, after all I find it a nice thing.
A) You can copy your UI settings from one patch to another. OK, this only
works with patches that have no settings applied, but it's still a nice
thing.
B) You don't have to save an extra EXS instrument everytime you want a
slight alteration.

I even removed some UI settings from quite some instruments after I saved
them as plugin presets.
Now, whenever I need say a pad, I can just call up a patch which has some
proper ADSR, maybe a bit of dynamic filtering too and then step through my
EXS instruments to see which one will fit nicely.

I do however agree that there might be better approaches. For example, I'd
like the copy/paste functions of the preset menu only to work for the UI
settings rather than having the complete instrument copied. And I'd like to
see some indexing happening at the EXS instrument selector, showing whether
a UI setting was applied or not. That way I could load a preset and then
scroll through my instruments without ever loading a "UI setting applied"
instrument which would erase the settings of the preset.

Anyways, I find the current way things work good enough to fool around with
both UI settings and instruments. I just started creating a new folder of
instruments, all without any UI settings. This will make surfing through
them easier (using the +/- keys in "Control" mode) while the last loaded UI
setting will just stay active.

Regards,
Sascha