EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 12:46 PM 11/29/02 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, I know I b*tched just like a lot of people about EXS having a sample
>crossfade function: be careful what you wish for!
>
>Has anyone noticed the phasing when you're in that in-between-two-samples
>zone (say mp and mf)? If the samples are slightly out of tune with one
>another (a few cents will do the trick, no?), they will phase.  Any
>solutions, oh wise ones?

Yeah, crossfading is overrated, just for that reason. Crossfading is like 
your paycheck, you can only use it a little. OK, that was a stupid analogy 
- but it was the only one I could think of...

Meaning that if you want a crossfade, you should have the two or more 
samples fairly close in timbre, tuning, and property. So - if that's the 
case, you might as well cross-switch it.

Crossfading has specific purposes, like a brass sound where you want the 
"splat" on a harder velocity. Switching is OK, but cross-fading it makes 
the "feel" less abrupt. Another application is the mod-wheel changing 
samples. Yet another is with broad, slow attack slow-release samples.

I agree with what the other guys said, crossfading is used well only in 
certain instances.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User