Samplecell > ESX Hell
2003-09-17 by Morgan Visconti
I'm really looking forward to taking the OS X plunge, however, I have 10 years work in Samplecell format (both sessions and home made sound libraries) and moving to ESX is very daunting, only because of it's inconsistencies in translating the Samplecell format. ESX is the only soft sampler that's even close to getting this right, but there a still a few roadblocks:- 1) A third of the time, keymaps are completely messed up. On a simple drumkit for instance, I'll find 4 drums on one note and others have gone all together. If an instrument had 2 velocity zones or more (say an oboe) the keys are ALL out of pitch. Completely unusable. 2) If any samples have moved from their original location - say a recycle loop - it takes about 30 seconds PER SAMPLE to locate, meaning about 5 minutes to load a loop. Samplecell itself takes about 10 seconds total to do this. So I have to always keep Samplecell open, open the instrument, re-save it, then open it in ESX. Impossible in OS X. 3) What exactly happens when you load a Samplecell Bank? It seems totally catastrophic. It seems to pick one midi channel, open that, and then convert about half of the instruments to a new folder. I'd think SC would be a very simple file format to convert. Please, emagic, save us all hours of work!! Morgan Visconti human 138 5th avenue. 3rd floor, nyc, ny 10011 telephone 212 352 0211 facsimile 212 352 0210 www.humanworldwide.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]