EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I have been building some instruments out of the audio files that are in
the Culture Tryout and the Majestic Tryout at Yellow tools. If anyone is
interested I can post the EXS files.

The Majestic audio files are electric bass samples with 8 way velocity
switching and two samples at each velocity -- sounds to me like two
separate pickups on the same bass. 

I can set up 8 way velocity switching with additional modwheel switching
between [bridge pickup/bridge and front/ front pickup] but it seems you
can't have velocity switching_AND_ crossfading between the modwheel levels
(to get a progressive blend of the pickups at constant volume)
simultaneously. This does not seem to work even if you program the velocity
ranges into the individual samples. Perhaps there is a workaround I have
missed? You can of course blend the pickups externally by using multiple
outputs --eg send all bridge samples to a different output to all the front
samples.

Another limitation is that the EXS 24 seems to stop working properly if the
number of zones exceeds 500 or so -- pasting in more zones for another
articulation does not work past a certain point. 

I have built some EXS24 instruments with the Culture Tryout audio files
too.  A Shaker, a huge Tambourine (16 way velocity switching and four
different sounds)  and a Surdo too. 

I haven't programmed the djembe though. Perhaps if someone else has done
it/ would like to do it (it is pretty huge -- to get the files you need to
download the Culture Tryout demo from the yellowtools site: 
http://www.yellowtools.com/index2_e.htm -- in the products area)  they
could send the exs file to me and I will put the whole lot up on the exs
files area.

Regards,
Murray