EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 19-08-2003, Herbert Boland wrote:

>Hi group,
>
>I don't know if this has been documented before but here is a neat trick
>I discovered this morning.
>
>[...]
>
>(Hendrik Jan: maybe add this to section 18 in the FAQ.)

For scrolling through instruments there _is_ a dedicated key command 
(next/prev EXS instrument).  I suppose you're aware of that. 
However, those KCs require you to have the EXS open, which your trick 
avoids -- and that's neat indeed.

But... I just tried, and the trick you describe is working in a 
strange way...  When having the 'Instrument' parameter active, 
dragging the vertical bar next to the track name will scroll through 
_all_ your EXS programs (or: drag the bar, and then use numeric +/- 
for fine-scrolling).  That's amazing, as I've got over 5000 EXS 
instruments, and you can access them all individually this way. 
However, for automation this is useless, as automation is limited to 
128 values. When you try it, it seems automation takes big steps 
through the available instruments -- like increasing automation from 
value=1 to value=2 will change the EXS from instruments 120 to 260 or 
something.

Despite the fact that the trick is somewhat surprising, I wonder how 
useful it really is in practice -- except that it gives you a way to 
scroll through the EXS instruments without having to have an EXS 
instance open to receive the dedicated key commands.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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