EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@y..., "sorenrv" <sorenrv@h...> wrote:
> 
> Let me know if that was helpful.
> Kind regards,
> Soren

I'd seen this mentioned in the manual, 

: Next Instrument
: Selects the Following Instrument (when multiple Instruments 
: are opened for editing) ...

and had assumed that this feature was just to let you flip between 
instruments that you'd already manually opened, rather than a way of 
loading new instruments.


Of course, the sensible thing would be to implement Program Change 
commands, and let the user switch between the patches in a folder 
that way. I don't suppose many of us have more than 128 EXS patches 
in one folder. Use bank commands to switch between folders. 
Allow the "bank" and "patch" lists to appear on the arrange page as 
they currently do for MIDI instruments and memory-resident 
soundfonts, the user could then select the patch list parameter and 
change the value with the +/- keys. Especially useful if you have 
imported "GM sets" of instruments into EXS, and have lots of very 
small fast-loading instrument sets, 128 per folder.

At the moment, logic's integrated instruments are arguably a bit less 
integrated in some ways than third-party instruments and external 
MIDI sources, not implementing program changes is bizarre. 

Erk