EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of Eli Krantzberg, 15-07-2002:

>Suppose you set up a bunch of different EXS instruments with different
>articulations loaded into each. Then create a cable switcher type of fader
>object with a cable going to each one of them. Set the input definition for
>the cable switcher to be a specific midi note (if this isn't directly
>possible, then I suppose you could convert the incoming message via a
>transformer). Make the cable switcher your track instrument.

[a few minutes after my previous post]

No, doesn't work.  Only the EXS instance cabled to the 1st outlet of 
the Cable Switcher ever plays (if the switch is in the right 
position, that is).  Toggling the switch will simply cause no output 
to occur.

Easy enough to check for yourself -  and this might actually work 
different (i.e. work at all :) under Windows, since the "play 
multiple instances with heavy latency" kludge _also_ works under 
Windows and not on a Mac.

Create a Cable Switcher, and set its range from 0-1.  Cable its 1st 
outlet to 1st audio instrument, 2nd outlet to 2nd (both inst's having 
an EXS instance).  Assign a track to the Cable Switcher.  Play your 
keyboard, click the Switcher to toggle between both EXS's.  Doesn't 
work over here.  Finito, end of experiment.

It's this kind of limitations in LA's midi implementation that at 
times really, really (and i mean REALLY) drive me up the wall.  I 
hope Apple will keep flogging the Emagic dudes until they've got this 
stuff sorted out...

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