EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

<eric_baird@...> wrote:
> Is there any reason why that site isn't listed in the links pages of
> any of the Yahoo softsynth groups I searched, including this one?
> Is it supposed to be a big secret or something? :-)

I allways thought K-v-R was rather popular... it has even been listed as a
surftip in some magazines.

> Hmm, it does seem to be a little complicated, and there do seem to be
> some odd omissions ... for instance, in their listing of "Official
> Company Forums" they seem to completely miss out all the Native
> Instruments ones, and NI aren't exactly an obscure company as far as
> softsynths are concerned, while they do seem to have support info for
> a lot of the little obscure companies (who seem to advertise with
> them). The section doesn't list the official Steinberg forums either.
> Hmm.

Thing is, these company forums are for the "small" (one or two persons)
companies that can't afford running (and maintaining) an extra forum at
their own sites - or that prefer to have one common public place. Actually a
good thing. OTOH, I am sure if, say, N.I. wanted, they could have a support
forum there as well, it just seems they prefer to run their own.

> ... and the KVR site didn't seem to show up when I did some fairly
> extensive search engine trawls for this sort of thing ... (looks at
> the KVR site source code) ... oh right, that's why, they did all the
> flashy javascript stuff but forgot to put in any search engine
> keywords or descriptions via the "Meta" tag feature that's meant for
> that (oops).
> Ho hum.

All seems to depend on the keywoards. "VSTi support" entered to Google
brought it up as the 4th hit. "Softsynth support" however didn't bring it up
at all.

> And I did a quick site search for "exs-users" and got no matches, so
> they don't seem to give any indication that THIS group exists ...

Hm, yeah... maybe they should have a section for mailing lists. But maybe
that would just defeat the purpose of running a forum based site.

> Maybe there's still a niche here that's worth filling, perhaps I'll
> keep the "SoftSynth Central" Yahoo group in place for a month or so,
> and see what happens.

I'll join in any case and see what happens too :-)

Apart from that, a few words about K-v-R: The community there in general is
nice, but you certainly have to take everything you're reading there with a
grain of salt. The reviews for instance very often are shamelessly praising
some things (at least if you ask me) so you better learn to read between the
lines (well, as with any reviews...).
Still, I think the site is the most up to date one when it comes to
softsynth news.

Regards,
Sascha