EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of dangcookie, 07-11-2002:

>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 purchased the EXS24 assuming that I'd be able to put an audio
>instrument at the end of a drum map.

The only reason this doesn't work, is the fact that Logic requires 
you to have the track with the actual instrument selected while 
playing -- so assigning a track to some env.patch and cabling that 
the EXS doesn't work.  This has been a much lamented fact 
(rightfully), and something that imo *must* be fixed in the future.
Your "ultimate of wishes" though is just nothing more than an example 
of one of the many things you can't do due to Logic's treatment of 
virtual instruments.  It's not a special feature that should be added 
-- it's a more general problem that should be fixed.  What you want 
can also not be done with Battery or the LM-4 or any other VSTi, 
since it's a VSTi-treatment problem, and not an EXS one.

Still you _can_ use such drummaps as long as you use a pre-recorded 
midi drumtrack.  Just play your drums with some standard drumset, and 
then later assign the track to an environment patch that lets you 
select any from 60 snares, etc.  The patch could consist of a series 
of condition splitters that route e.g. the basedrum to a 1st EXS 
instance (which has a complete set of basedrums loaded), the snare to 
a 2nd EXS instance, etc.  If you set each condition splitter to 'fix' 
the output pitch to some meta-fader controlled value, you would 
essentially have what you try to do.

Heck, I should build such a thing in my own autoload...  Would be way 
handy...  Thanks for the idea :-).

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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