EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Very nice of the broadband folks who allready said they'd be sending out
CDs... there's a problem left though.
I allready downloaded quite some samples and doing instrument patches of
them certainly requires a whole lot of work. Why? Because a) IMO a lot of
them need to be normalized, b) a lot of them need to be destructively edited
in order to get proper loop points (ok, one could just map them, but from
what I've seen this won't allways lead to proper results), c) all of them
need their startpoints to be adjusted.
Sure, apart from normalizing you can do all these things non-destructively
in the EXS editor, then just upload the EXS patches and then everybody
having the samples would be able to enjoy finished instruments... but as I
allready tried mapping some instruments I can ensure you that in many cases
destructive editing (such as proper cutting, eventual destructive looping
and "save as"-ing) is the only way to go unless you'd like to spend ages in
the EXS editor (we all know it's not THAT great).
The only exception might be the piano samples. The only thing required there
would be start point adjustment, which can be done easily inside the EXS
editor.

Oh, another point is the filenames. For whatever reason they are named .aiff
instead of .aif (which actually contains the same file information). AIFF on
PCs isn't exactly supported well (WaveLab for instance only supports AIF
naturally). I renamed them all because of that...

Anyways, if someone wouldn't mind sending a CD (or two, that piano is
ridiculously huge) to my adress I'd gladly send some CD(s) further, both
with patches and eventually destructively edited samples.
Maybe we could arrange a snail mailing chain, so each person only has to
send CD(s) once.

Regards,
Sascha