EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 03:58 PM 12/5/02 +0000, you wrote:

>'ello everybody,
>new to the list, not the exs. Sorry if this has been addressed
>before, I couldn't find it though...
>As wonderful as the exs is, I've always wondered why nobody
>has to date fallen over the fact that individual samples within an
>instrument can not have their own envelopes, filters, fades, etc...
>Am I overlooking something here?

Hey, I have! We spent many weeks programming translations that 
algorithmically averaged these out in a user-acceptable way - if there was 
even one to begin with.

(The funny thing about programming this was that sooner or later we thought 
it would be tossed out anyway when Emagic updated the EXS to do this - but 
then they haven't yet, so it wasn't a waste of time - yet.)

Remember, though, the groups have overrides that help in this - for the amp 
ADSR, cutoff, and rez. That effectively sinks those down to the zone level. 
But nope on everything else - and now with Mark II, it sux even more before 
there even more outside the zone realm.

But your right - it isn't crossfading that is the Achilles Heel of the of 
the EXS, it's the depth level of the paramters.

Either Emagic could sink these down to the Zone level (preferred), or they 
could do a new file format called a "Bank" or "Combi" or "Rueben Sandwich 
on Rye," which allowed multiple EXS instances (whatever the term) to load 
on different audio instruments. This way you could make one Master 
Instrument out of several sub-EXS ones, and play it as one. SmapleCell is a 
good model of this. Of course, this is too confusing - as if the computer 
music world wasn't already overly complicated.

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User