EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I'm experiencing regular, spontanous patch shifts. I'm working on a mix 
right now and all of sudden (haven't even touched the track) the bass 
and another instrument has changed into another instrument! This means 
I have to prey I know what the sound was, otherwise I can go searching 
again for the right sound. This happens once in a while (maybe once a 
week or two weeks). It screws my mix up totally. I'm on a deadline now 
and this means I have to spend precious time trying to find the old 
sound again. The EXS changes the sounds at random. This also means that 
at any time my precious mix can get screwed up, if it's a soft sound I 
might not even notice it straight away.
This is unworkable. A major bug, if you ask me. Is this a known problem?


Remco
Logic Platinum 6.3.1
G4 800MHz, 1,5GB RAM
MacOS X 10.2.8

I have never experienced this problem. My guess is that perhaps you are 
accidently pressing on a key that selects the next instrument in the 
EXS. Go in your Key Commands list, and check to make sure there's no 
key assigned to Global Commands -> Next EXS Instrument.

Good luck!

Ned

On 03-10-28, at 17:07, Remco Muntz wrote:

> I'm experiencing regular, spontanous patch shifts. I'm working on a mix
> right now and all of sudden (haven't even touched the track) the bass
> and another instrument has changed into another instrument! This means
> I have to prey I know what the sound was, otherwise I can go searching
> again for the right sound. This happens once in a while (maybe once a
> week or two weeks). It screws my mix up totally. I'm on a deadline now
> and this means I have to spend precious time trying to find the old
> sound again. The EXS changes the sounds at random. This also means that
> at any time my precious mix can get screwed up, if it's a soft sound I
> might not even notice it straight away.
> This is unworkable. A major bug, if you ask me. Is this a known 
> problem?
>

http://www.nedfx.com

    Ned Bouhalassa

n e d @ n e d f x . c o m


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At 23:07 Uhr +0100 28.10.2003, Remco Muntz wrote:
>I'm experiencing regular, spontanous patch shifts.
<snip>

I've experienced this too. Searching and deleting duplicate patches 
(patch names) solved the problem here.

There is a utility called File Buddy out there that is tremendous 
help in cleaning out large sample libraries (well, large file 
collections in general). http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/

I've just cleaned my 40 GB library and 12000 instruments. Took about 
3 hours. As always: Make backups first!

Cheers
Hans

> I have never experienced this problem. My guess is that perhaps you are
> accidently pressing on a key that selects the next instrument in the
> EXS. Go in your Key Commands list, and check to make sure there's no
> key assigned to Global Commands -> Next EXS Instrument.

I have selected the highest note on my keyboard to go to next 
instrument, but the sound is chosen randomly. So, it's not the next 
instrument, but aanother one (not even in the same folder.

Thanks.

Remco