EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of Sascha Franck, 06-11-2002:

>With SX anything described above would be moot. It simply takes 30 seconds
>to select and save the channels you'd like to copy - no matter whether
>they're audio, group, bus or VSTi channels. Takes 5 seconds to load them
>into any target song. Yes please!
>
>Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
>>  Depends on the kind of music you make probably.
>
>Oh well, of course, just as usual...

:-)  For the record: my remark referred to multitimbrality, while 
your quote above (and the rest that I deleted) was about copying 
mixers-- something entirely different.  Just wanted to avoid possible 
confusion...

[about snapshots]
>Btw, talking about things being difficult to implement - due to the
>"non-dynamic" object based nature of audio/virtual instrument tracks I could
>imagine that implementing an option to copy mixer channels (at least groups
>of them) would be a tough thing.

Maybe, yes.  If you would copy, say, the Track 1-5 objects, and 
wanted to apply them in another song to the Track 6-10 objects, one 
would need some sort of clever interface for that, true.
I think a sensible "in between" solution would be to have the ability 
to save the settings of one channel strip as a kind of preset, just 
like you can do with plugins.  Then you could simply click a flip 
menu in a channel strip, and call up the "Power Guitar" setting, 
which would load an EXS guitar, Overdrive, Compressor, etc, with one 
click.
Still a bit of work if you want to copy 40 channel strips between 
songs, but 1) this probably doesn't ahppen all that often and 2) it 
still beats having to manually recreate 40 channel strips.

>When I was thinking about all that I thought it'd at least be a good thing
>being able to "manually" copy audio objects from one song to another (or
>using the environments import function) - but let's just assume "git01" of
>your target song is running with object setting "track 01" - might just
>conflict with the one you're importing... one of the drawbacks of Logic's
>object based conception.

I think my above suggestion wouldn't be difficult to implement, and 
would take care of the problem you describe.

>Ah well... I'm not even in the mood to think about that any longer, I've
>been requesting such feature(s) for SO long and SO often (along with other
>people), but nothing ever happened. Even worse, environment import in
>general still seems to be screwed up in a lot of ways.

The environment as a whole could do with a big makeover by now.  I'm 
with you  in fearing that it'll be a long time before we see anything 
done about these matters...

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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