EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Thoughts from the mind of h_b_jensen, 20-11-2002:

>--- In exs-users@y..., "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@s...> wrote:
>>
>>  As Hendrik Jan allready asked: What's the "bug" sounding like?
>>
>When you play along the keyboard and go from a note belonging to one
>zone to a note belonging to the next zone then the transition is
>wrong, i.e. if the first zone ends on a B1, the first note in the
>next zone should sound like C1,

Like C2 you mean... That's what comes after B1, since scales run from C to C.

>  but it doesn't. I have been fiddling
>with ranges and can't seem to get it right.

Ranges have nothing to do with it.  Your problem indicates that you 
haven't got the keynotes right.  If the note that should sound like 
C2 actually sounds like e.g. D2, the keynote is two semitones too 
_low_ (think about it: if you drag the keynote *up* from e.g. G2 to 
A2, then A2 will play the original pitch instead of G2, and so G2 
(and all other notes) will sound 2 semitones *lower* than it used 
to...) .  Simply drag the keynote parameter from that zone until the 
transition sounds right.  No musical education needed for that -- 
just play the B1 and C2 repeatedly while dragging the keynote...

>The pitch of each sample is correct as far as I can hear, that is,
>the A1 sample really is note A1,

That can't be true, or else you wouldn't run into this problem. 
Well, it can be true, but then: if it's indeed true, then e.g. the 
A1-zone doesn't have its keynote set to A1.  Then that should be 
fixed: set the keynotes for all 4 zones to correspond to the 
filenames of the samples.  If the transitions still are not right, 
then the filenames are wrong and don't reflect the real recorded note.

>Judging from Hendrik's post I guess the real problem is my lack of
>musical education. I am awful at determining the pitch of a sound
>(!), and that makes it difficult to set up the ranges properly.

While playing the EXS, just monitor your external synth as well -- 
with e.g. a piano sound.  That should make it extremely easy to get 
the EXS "in tune".  I use this 'trick' all the time when downloading 
samples from the web whose pitch is not clear (no clear filename and 
no properly stored rootnote info).

>Anyway, if all else fails I can just use the E1 sample and let it run
>across the entire range

Nah... that's a completely silly solution for a problem that's very 
easy to solve.  You shouldn't let yourself get away with it so 
easily...

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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