EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Yep, have a random value generator that passes a voice a single 
random value along with the velocity etc data. Back in the old analog 
days, you'd do this by having the gate voltage trigger a S&H unit fed 
by a noise source. 
Very /very/ easy to implement, especially now there's a modulation 
matrix, and very low-impact processor-wise, you just ask the OS for a 
random number every time there's a note-on event, which is nothing 
like as serious as trying to run an LFO. You wouldn't need any 
changes to the EXS panel, it'd just be an additional modulation 
source. And if you wanted to be really daring, you could have more 
than one random source, so you could have different parameters being 
randomised per note differently, so your synth bass has a timbre 
jumping on every note, and a pan position jumping on each note, but 
the two things aren't changing in sympathy.
 


--- In exs-users@y..., Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:
>
> I wonder if in such cases randomizing sample-choice wouldn't be 
more 
> effective (as I described inmy post) instead of this "fixed cycling 
> order".
> It's a pity there isn't a true "random select" function (or I 
didn't 
> discover it yet).  Using a random LFO has its own problems, like 
> samples changing sound while keeping a key depressed.  It would be 
> nice if you could have the EXS pick a random sample on every note-
on, 
> and then have it play _that_ sample without changing it for the 
> entire durationof the note.
> And yes, it's trivial to build an environment patch that causes 
this 
> behaviour -- e.g. send a random CC88 on every note on, and have the 
> mod-matrix such that CC88 selects a sample -- but it would be nice 
if 
> it was part of the EXS...