EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Sascha Franck wrote:
>Colin Shapiro wrote:
>> You could always buy CDXtract. It supports EXS24 and Kontakt support
>> is forthcoming I think....
>
>Yeah well, from what I know CDXtract doesn't support .exs as an input
>format.
>
>Anyways, while HALion supporting .exs *might* be a good solution for the
>future, I am more than ever pretty much sure that I won't switch too early.
>>From what it seems SX still has some major handling flaws, major bugs and
>what not. So, if you care about ergonomics, LAW 5.x IMO is the best
>sequencer you can get for Windows - and it will defenitely stay like that
>for at least another year, maybe even a LOT longer, all depending on how
>good the last update will be.

Yes -- what an irony it is. I started on Notator (briefly) and then did the
upgrade to Logic 2.0 (midi only). When Logic Audio PC 2.5 was released this
time six years ago I bought it in the first week. And what a load of crap
the audio - to - midi synch was in those days.  I persisted with the
program through 3.x mainly for midi -- still using tape for audio mainly. 

Since Logic 4 and the arrival of decent low latency 24 bit audio
interfaces,  Logic has been great. I have found it an inspiration to work
with and the program has become so much more than we could have anticipated
 --  Audio Instruments, the full set of native and 3rd party plugins on tap
etc. 

If Logic 5.2 is all that is claimed then Logic as a cross platform system
has exceeded its promise. Amazing that having reached such a level it
should just be junked on the 97% platform. So much work has gone into
making it such a terrific system for music creation. I wonder how the
people who did the work and all the testing feel about this right now.

[SNIP]

>I have been like a/b-ing SX and Logic in the shop, and while SX has some
>truly stunning features, ergonomically it just sucks, a plain nightmare
>(yes, really!), you seem to run out of monitor space all the time,
>everything is stuffed with menus and buttons, you can't link editors (or any
>window for that matter) and part handling is clumsy to say the least. When I
>switched to Logic after fooling around with it for quite some hours, Logic
>just felt SOO much home... and hey, I am an old Cubase user, so I defenitely
>knew where and how to look for things in SX. Still didn't make it any
>better.

I haven't used Cubase since Atari days but I will take the chance to look
it over myself tomorrow.

>If at all, the only thing to replace the EXS for me would be Kontakt, which
>indeed is amazing.

Can you build your own instruments efficiently on it?

>For now I can get a lot of things done with the EXS though. It's easy to
>use, nice on your CPU (Kontakt isn't exactly) and a stable and trustworthy
>workhorse. And while it could need an update, I am still very fast on doing
>my own patches and all.

Yes it is has been my main workhorse -- despite a few annoying shortcomings 
of the Instrument editor it has been so useful, so reliable. 

>Just to calm you folks down a bit.

Yes ;-)  I think more than a few of us could use a cup of tea and a good
lie down after the last week.

Regards,
Murray