EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Creative's "Audigy" card has good soundfont support, it gives you two 
virtual MIDI soundfont devices that each give you 16-channel 
multitimbrality (so you have a maximum of 32 soundfont instruments 
sitting there waiting to be played), and you can set up multiple 
banks of soundfonts to load into /each/ of the two devices 
independently, so you might have one device loaded up with 
alternative banks of GM-mapped soundfonts, and the other containing 
more specialised sounds.

Under Winlogic Plat 5 , if you are on the arrange page and set a 
track to one of those ports, the "bank/patch" selector thing at the 
left of the window will call up full list of all the soundbank names 
available for that device, and you can browse through the bank and 
patch name listings by mouse or with the keyboard. Don't know it it 
works the same on lower versions or under the mac.

If only logic's own instruments could be accessed this way! <g>


There are disadvantages: with the EXS you can mix down and treat and 
route instruments individually (or even split an individual 
instrument through individual outputs!), which is really convenient, 
especially when you are using logic's software "bounce" function.
With an Audigy playing those soundfonts, the things might sometimes 
sound or play better, and should put less load on your computer, but 
are much more difficult to mix and route, you probably only have a 
stereo mix to deal with. 
 


--- In exs-users@y..., "eromaled2002" <johndelamore@h...> wrote:
>
> As I am a 
> bit strapped for$ I am wondering is it possible to get a 'decent', 
> lower latency card and use it to process the soundfonts, but 
continue 
> to use MLAV and not require EXS24? Advice greatly apprec
>