EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@y..., <HELP@M...> wrote:
> I'm going to build a custom guitar EXS24
> instrument soon with clean samples that can be manipulated 
> intuitively and sound more like the real deal. 

Yeah, I was going to have a go at somehting like this, but the EXS 
under logic 5.1 doesn't yet seem to have the facilities I'd want to 
use.

I'd have each string's range on a different channel, so you could 
play a piece in using default mapping over MIDI channnels 1-6, and 
then run through the sequence afterwards, reassigning notes to 
different MIDI channels when you want it sounding on a different 
string. 
I'd also want some way of selecting playing style on a note-by-note 
basis without depending on velocity switching (because I'd want 
dynamics variable independently of style).

Now, because EXS (AFAIK) doesn't currently support multi-MIDI 
patches, or allow you to mix or switch between keygroups by 
controller, that presumably means that if you want six strings under 
four styles, you need to create an environemtn set that uses 6*4=24 
copies of EXS!!

And it still wouldn't give you proper humanise feautures like random 
or cycling functions. Maybe 5.2 improves EXS a lot, otherwise I might 
have to investigate these modular systems like Absynth or Reaktor.
It's been bugging me so much that a couple of hours ago I just 
downloaded the VST developer's kit, to see if its worth actually 
writing one from scratch! 
(it's not)

=Erk=