EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I hope someone at Emagic is listening to all this. This would be an ideal
place for them to have their ear on the railroad tracks so to speak. Apple
should buy us out. All this constructive, industry-leading brainstorming
should be worth something. Don't you think? ;-) Jer

> Thoughts from the mind of Herbert Boland, 16-07-2002:
> 
>> Maybe there is something else that can work with the current version of
>> EXS. First you have to create a combined instrument. Imagine you have
>> two switches in this instrument: non-vibrato and vibrato. Layout the
>> samples _next_ to each other on the key range, first sample set starting
>> on C1 and second on C3. Adjust root note in such a way that C1 and C3
>> have same pitch when played. Now make a cable switcher that
>> adds/subtracts 24 to a played key value when a dedicated controller key
>> is pressed.
>> I guess this can be extended to 3 or even 4 switched instruments,
>> dependent on the pitch range of each individual sample set. HJ, can this
>> Gigastudio emulation work? I didn't try it myself yet, it obviously
>> needs some programming... (but no fuzz with track or velocity
>> switching!)
> 
> Yes, this should be perfectly do-able.  Not a bad idea at all.
> Should also be very easy to make in the environment.  I could give it
> a shot if anyone's interested.
> Such an environment patch should have a setting for "number of zones"
> and something like "width per zone" and "lowest keyboard note" or
> something...
> 
> The only drawback is that you'd have to create dedicated
> exs-instruments to work with it...  OTOH, the advantage is that you
> would end up with all midi notes on a single track, instead of having
> them distributed over however many different tracks.
> 
> Wow, if only Emagic had implemented this stuff properly, how much
> easier would life then be...