EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@y..., "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@s...> wrote:

> The problem here IMO is the different format of presets. 
> In Logic you basically have all your existing presets 
> available through the preset pulldown. This means that 
> MIDI program changes may not be sufficient to adress 
> them all because you can easily have tons more than only 
> 128 patches.

Yep, but I really don't think it should have been a problem.
Emagic's own factory presets are already sorted into folders with 
less than 128 patches in each, and the patches within each folder 
have already been given sequential number prefixes.

So all you'd have to do is have incoming program numbers calling up 
the appropriately-numbered preset within the current folder. Sorted.
If you wanted to change the prog~/patch assignments, you wouldn't 
have to muck around with any sort of table lookup thing, or any sort 
of special page within logic, you'd just open Windows Explorer (or 
the mac equivalent) and rename the relevant patches with different 
leading numbers. Best of both worlds, you get the flexibility of the 
file-based approach, but also proper MIDI selection.


Perhaps if you then want to be able to go further and use MIDI to 
switch between folders as well, you could also rename each folder 
that you want to be able to access over midi with an appropriate 
number, and those folders then become accessable via MIDI bank-change 
commands.
If you don't want to use bank-changes (or your MIDI keyboard doesn't 
do them), you just copy up to 128 of your favourite patches into a 
single folder and prefix that folder with a zero, or give it some 
other special name to signify that its the default folder for MIDI 
control.

I really don't think that this is a difficult thing to fix, it 
doesn't even require any changes to the user interface 
(although that might be nice, too).

Erk