EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Yeah, yeah, yeah... but that's not the same thing. I was being quite general
I will admit. But what you said was definitely worth mentioning and I should
have done the same.

> From: "Rubber Chicken Software Co." <support@...>
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:19:55 -0600
> To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [exs] them samples
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> 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
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