EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Phil Buckle wrote:
> 
> You may want to think about investing in a Giga Sampler PC rig and leave the
> EXS for smaller things. If your going to sketch things out anyway you may as
> well use what most film/orchestral composers are using these days and speak
> the common language.
> Here in Australia the trend is also toward Gigasampler amongst the "pros".
> Emagic have clearly shown their intentions with such slow development and
> the more modern music culture slant of their products. Gigasampler has now
> established itself as the most innovative tool for your type of work.
> I'm starting to wonder how good Gigasampler would be with my loop and drum
> library, I'm going to have to get a PC rig to stay in the "loop" with all
> the other composers around me anyway. In a way Gigasampler has become like
> ProTools. Everybody is sharing work and sending their files from one studio
> to another and sharing the work load. I did get a number of my friends to
> try the EXS but they have all since bought GigaSampler.
> Didn't intend to turn your question in to a rant but I think you might be
> investing time and effort in to the wrong software.
> By the way to bring things more on topic: I think you can "almost" replace a
> 60 piece orchestra with a combination of real players and samples. I've just
> finished 2 projects that did just that. One had 15 players and the other had
> 10. Both scores were fleshed out with samples. Both those composers were
> using EXS and now have Gigasampler.
> Phil Buckle.

Hmmm, interesting points Phil.

I wonder if the situation'll change though? Like maybe when the
mysterious "EXS24 II" mentioned on the Vienna Symphonic site appears? I
can't help wondering if the EXS24 is in for some serious overhaul
considering that Vineea Symphonic have seen fit to choose it for the Mac
side of their sample libraries?