EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

on 14/4/03 5:51 PM, exs-users@yahoogroups.com at exs-users@yahoogroups.com
wrote:

> So Garth, is this in perfect flawless form now? I'm anxious to use this if
> it is really working, but I don't want to be beta testing. I'd like to do
> the translations and be done with it. Should I try now or wait? -Jer
> 
>> As a side note, Translator preserves all the audio information when
>> translating Kurzweil samples to WAV/AIFF, and it also translates Kurzweil
>> Programs to EXS. Maybe the samples were brought across using the Alt sample
>> start and not the true sample start. See www.chickensys.com/translator

Hi Garth, I am a Translator and CD Extract user so I intend no bias but.....
Is it true to say that neither app can duplicate what the Kurzweils filters
are doing to the samples and apply it to the resultant EXS translation?
In other words if you translated 10 programs from Kurzweil to EXS that used
common samples but different filtering the result would be 10  EXS programs
that sounded the same. This is because the EXS is not a Kurzweil and does
not have the filter architecture of a Kurzweil.
For example I translated 12 Pad sounds from my Kurzweil "Danny Jaeger
Private Collection" CD.
All these programs sounded vastly different from each other but referenced
the same set of samples.
After translation to EXS all 12 pad sounds were identical. So just the
samples were translated across.
Totally useless of course because all the filter settings of the K2000 were
lost........and of course they were. The EXS is NOT a K2000 and has
different architecture and filters.
On the other hand, translating something like Bass Legends works quite well
because there is no filter information so the resulting EXS instruments are
quite useable.
Am I stating the obvious? I mean...........I don't think that either app has
the ability to copy the Kurzweil's synth engine on a per program basis and
make it sound the same in the resultant EXS instrument.
I think some users are under the impression that this can be done.
They are laboring under a misapprehension...........no?
Phil Buckle.