EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Improved patch selection.


* Patch names displayed on arrange page.

The arrange page already lets MIDI tracks display the current 
assigned patchname for a MIDI instrument, so it would be nice if this 
trick also worked for logic's own integrated instruments. 
At the moment you can get it to display the assigned "mixer channel" 
instrument name, but not the type of instrument selected 
(ES2/ESX/etc.), or the currently selected patch.



* Improved Folder/Patch select (all logic soft-instruments)

The arrange page already lets us quickly change banks and patches 
from the arrange page, but only for MIDI instruments -- it would  
be very useful to be able to do this with logic instruments, too.
If a track is set to use a logic instrument, the counterpart of the 
MIDI "bank select" popup list ought to be populated with the relevant 
instrument folder names, and the counterpart of the "patch number" 
popup list ought to be populated with the names of instruments in the 
currently selected folder. 
Then we'd be able to browse EXS24 and ES2 patches from the arrange 
page. It wouldn't hurt for the volume and pan parameters to be 
duplicated here, too.

If these patch controls acted like their "MIDI instrument" 
counterparts, we could then use the computer keyboard to step quickly 
between sounds (select bank/folder or program/patch field and use the 
cursor or "+""-"keypad keys), and perhaps also change value by 
incoming program change and bank change numbers, so that we could 
call up ES2 sounds from our MIDI keyboard panel. 

Admittedy changes to these parameters would have to be flagged up 
as "not recordable real-time", and some ESX patches would still take 
a while to load, but it would make selecting sounds much easier.
At the moment it can be a real chore dealing with things like 
imported 128-patch GM soundfont banks, if you are replacing your 
stock soundcard sounds with EXS sounds, you need to be able to get at 
them quickly. 

=Erk=