EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

"Emanuele Ruffinengo" <emaruffi@...> wrote:

> However there's one thing I can't stop thinking about: why Sample Library
> Producers like Ilio, Spectrasonics, East-West etc. don't sell "converted"
> libraries?

Well up until the recent trend of virtual instrument libraries, that's
exactly what happend. Companies would create multiple versions of their
libraries in Akai format, Gigasampler format, Audio format, Roland format
and so on. This is (as you have found out) a lot of work, hence the trend
for soundware companies moving towards producing one decent library which
can be sold to more or less everyone. Especially as the older hardware
samplers are now not the only option and mostly a poorer one...

These companies can't do all this work everytime someone releases a new
software sampler or sampler format for a small market.

> The main problem is: standard quality of the product.

And I'm sure Eric would be one of the first people to say it saddens and
annoys him when people get a poor impression of his products when converting
to a non-native sampler format for exactly this reason...

> But still I'm wondering: why the original producers didn't provide me what
> THEY know is their original and source standard?

It's all to do with what formats they choose to implement to be able to sell
their product...

And most of them seem to be going down the virtual instrument route. Give it
a couple of years, after we've had all the multi-gigabyte bass, drums,
acoustic guitar, electric guitar, horns, keys instruments/libraries, we'll
need to get onto the virtual "players" to play them all... :-)

Virtual Dave Gilmour, anyone...

Ben Hall
www.benhall.co.uk
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