EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Well then...doesn't seem worth it does it!  Go for the audio version and
slice and dice in Recycle.  What a waste of time!  You'd think BT would have
been on top of this.  Check out some of the Skippy's stuff on Spectrasonics
site.  Excellent grooves, nicely sliced with Groove Control and you can
reshuffle the beats any way you like to create new grooves.  I've done a few
movie cues where I just took the groove control version of one of his beats
and created an entire new bizarre sequence at a totally different tempo.
Great system.

James

on 6/28/03 4:20 PM, Ned Bouhalassa at ned@... wrote:

Sorry to dissapoint you James (and others), but no, the AKAI version of
Beatz certainly does not have a sliced-up version of the beats. AFAIK, the
audio and AKAI are the same, only the AKAI is mapped out. Someone with the
hande Ed has asked this very same question to Doug Rogers (head of
East-West) on the East-West Forum of the excellent Northern Sounds sample
discussion web site. You can follow the thread here:

http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=24;t
=000251

BTW, Groove Control is only used in Spectrasonics products, like BackBeat,
Retro-Funk and Stylus...

Ned

James Ryan wrote:
> I would guess it's to do with "groove control."  Probably the Akai version
> has each beat mapped to a key.  You then import the sequence for that groove
> into the sequencer, and when you play it back on the Akai channel, the
> groove plays correctly at the speed of your sequencer - any speed within
> reason.  Something like Recycle.  Actually, exactly like Recycle.  The extra
> $100 is probably for the effort to break all the grooves out into a Recycle
> or Groove Control format.





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