EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 09:17 AM 4/13/02 +0200, you wrote:

>Now that you mention it...  Maybe I should just wait till the EXS
>arrives (demo expired last week), but I wondered what the use of the
>'groups' is.  As far as I could see they're just a convenient way to
>assign the same velocity range to a group of samples (zones) all at
>once, instead of having to go into each zone's definition and setting
>vel-ranges one by one.  Is that a correct interpretation?  Or do the
>groups offer a "real" functionality that's not offered by the zones?
>I.e. are there cases where you _have_ to use groups, instead of them
>being just "more convenient"?

It's the hack way of getting the amplitude envelope, filter cutoff and rez 
settings down to the Zone level (where they should be). There's many 
instances where each zone needs different settings.

Also remember that the group settings are adjustments to the global 
parameters - they aren't absolute.

>On the same subject: am I also right in assuming that two zones
>assigned to the same key (with both a full vel-range) will cause two
>samples to be played simultaneously when playing the corresponding
>key?

Right - they are all overlapping.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User