EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Yaay!
We got crossfading!
Cool! So now we can have really expressive string patches with just 
two (velocity cross-faded) layers, or we can have layered mute, 
picked, stroked, plucked and slapped guitar layers and use a 
controller to adjust playing style independently of velocity, etc 
etc. 
Niice!

In fact about the only cool expression thing I don't see is any sort 
of obvious "randomised" modulation source anywhere ... it would be 
nice sometimes to give each note of a chord its own randomised pan 
position, or have a repetitive sequencer line jumping about the 
stereo field, or having the filter position changing on every note, 
or have a random mix of two or more hihat samples playing on each 
strike independently of velocity, to give a bit of automatic 
variation independent of playing technique. 
But there /is/ a nice pitch-randomise function for humanising  
sounds, and that should go a long way towards making repeated sampled 
drums sound less robotic, which is cool.

But I don't want to nit-pick, the controllable fadeable layering is 
an extremely nice thing to have, I look forward to fidding with those 
new crossfade parameters on some of the cross-switched patches I've 
already got, and once Wizzoo et al have got together some nice new 
multipatches that use the feature, I expect to be buying some more (a 
brief think: if they ever bring out a further revision, some sort of 
text field display would be nice, so that patch authors can add 
copyright info and playing tips to a patch). 

And they also seem to have listened to users and put +/- buttons into 
the screen (perhaps these should exist up on the general-purpose 
button bar, and be available for all emagic instruments, but 
whatever).

All in all, quite chuffed. Cheers! <beams>

=Erk=