EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of Herbert Boland, 16-07-2002:

>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.
>
>Hendrik Jan Veenstra replied :
>>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.
>
>I am.

Okay, it's done, although it was not at all as easy as I'd first 
thought.  To the contrary in fact...

Here's a blurb from the included docs:
---
ZoneSwitch is a macro that allows you to quickly transpose your MIDI 
keyboard, using "unused" keys. It's intended to be a workaround for 
the fact that Logic doesn't provide a way to switch between virtual 
instruments on the fly. If you have e.g. a couple of EXS instruments 
with different violin artiulcations (legato, staccato, pizzicato, 
etc), it would be nice to have a way to switch between these 
different instruments while playing your keyboard. This is precisely 
what ZoneSwitch allows you to do, provided you set up an EXS 
instrument specifically for this purpose (which you, obviously, only 
have to do once for each "set" of instruments you want to use).
---

Works very good imo...  Before announcing its existence "worldwide" 
(i.e. in the LUG :-), I'd like to get some feedback from those 
interested.  Therefore there's no link on my webpage yet, but only 
this direct link:

http://www.ision.nl/users/h/soft/zonesw.sit

...and yes, that's a Stuffit archive.  You can get Stuffit Expander 
(Mac/Win) for free from http://www.aladdinsys.com


Enjoy...
HJ
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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html