Ok, here is the ultimate of wishes, which I've been politely asking Emagic for for almost 2 years now, since buying the EXS24: I construct drum kits on the fly with drum maps in Logic. So on my Kurzweil I have programs of snares, programs of Kicks, of toms, hihats, cymbals, tamborines, etc., etc.. I construct my kits on the fly using drum maps. It is the most amazing way to creatively and -- most importantly-- quickly construct kits for any given song (rock vs. pop vs. rap vs. whatever). My problem is that my K2500 suffers from only 48 voices, and has no ability to group hihats, let alone limit polyphony per program. So as I'm playing my Clearmountain stereo rides that ring for 15 seconds, my polyphony dies quickly. I purchased the EXS24 assuming that I'd be able to put an audio instrument at the end of a drum map. I thought it was a fair assumption, being that Logic is generally very flexible. Once I discovered that it couldn't do this, I hoped that Logic would someday soon allow me to use hihat and cymbals kits that I would construct on the EXS24, and construct (on the fly using drum maps) the really creative combinations of kick, snare, toms and percussion using my trusty drum maps utilizing my K2500 kick, snare, etc. programs. Well, I'm still waiting. If you understand what I am getting at here, please speak up to Emagic, because they're either slow as molasis on this, or they don't yet understand the relevance. Emagic should smell the potential boon to users of having the power to construct their kits in this fashion. You don't really want to construct hundreds of kits in the EXS24, do you? It's time consuming, and can get quickly cumbersome. With this recommendation, Emagic could sell programs of kicks, of snares, of toms, etc. to hungry drum lovers and simply provide the drum map environment like the one I created. I simply don't understand why they are so slow to improve midi flexibility in their audio instruments. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I curse Zeus for not giving me more patience. David
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The most important wish list for drum sample lovers
2002-11-07 by dangcookie
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