EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 21-03-2003, bob_vandiver wrote:

>  > Sounds like you simply want more than 64 voices, right?  I never
>>  tried the following myself, but imo it should work.  Basic idea:
>>  connect a transformer to 2 EXS instances, and have the transformer
>>  send all notes below e.g. C3 to the first instance and the other
>>  notes to the second instance (assuming your entire part isn't
>played
>>  with 2 hands below C3 :-).  At the same time, you should make sure
>>  that pedal messages (CC64) reach both EXS's.
>
>Hendrik, first idea I thought of is a switcher that switches every
>other note to one of the two EXS 24's. This would divide up the work
>more evenly but I have not a clue as to how to do this.

Ah, yes, clever idea...  Well, you could use a transformer set to 
"alternating split", which does exactly what the name says: send out 
events to outlets 1 and 2 in turn.  The problem with that though is 
that you could inadvertently  send a note-on to one outlet and the 
note-off to another (ditto with e.g,. sustain pedal on/off messages). 
The easiest fix would then be to first split the incoming midi stream 
into 'note ons' and 'everything else'.  Send 'everything else' (i.e. 
including note-offs) to both EXS's, and send the note-ons to an 
"Alternating Split" transformer.  A bit tricky, since it means you 
have to convert notes to CC's first, or else the environment won't 
let you spliut note-ons and note-offs, etc.  Also, both EXS's will 
recieve _all_ note-offs, even for notes they didn't receive a note-on 
for, which doesn't hurt but is a bit messy of course.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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