EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

* Audio thumbnails (ESX24)

To help with the speedy selection of sounds, ESX24 could have 
a "thumbnail create" function that automatically generates a short 
low-quality preview of a few notes being played in a patch, and then 
saves the result as as a 11.05kHz mono wave preview file with the 
same location and name as the patch file. Then when you navigate the 
patch select menus, you could be hearing previews of each sound 
passed over by the mouse without having to stop and load each patch 
every time.
A "reset all thumbnails" function could run through a range of 
patches or folders and generate new default audio thumbnails for 
every patch found.

Using a standard format like .wav for the previews would also mean 
that when you are organising and renaming your sounds with the 
operating system's file management functions, a quick double-click on 
the associated .wav file would let you hear what a particular patch 
is like, without having to load the thing into logic. 


The main justification for audio thumbnails obviously be their use 
with sampled instruments like the ESX24 that can take a while to load 
and which already take up  a lot of disk space, but once this sort of 
previewing system is added to logic, it might be nice to allow the 
users the option of also using it with other logic software 
instruments like the ES2, if they want to. It might be quite a flashy 
feature.

=Erk=