Chase and reset and group selection by controller
2003-12-08 by spamisevil2001
OK, I've read the other posts about reset and chase, but this is ridiculous! I finally got into EXS24 again because I noticed it supported selecting groups by note, group, controller, or PB. Hey, I thought, this means I can set up Giga style bank swithing - great! Hah! Logic resets any controller I use to change banks. So if I've got Mod Wheel (or any other controller actually - I tried cc13, for example) set to pick soft strings at the bottom and loud string from 100-127, then every time I restart the sequencer, the controller returns me to soft strings. This means that I would have to enter mod wheel data into all of my tracks. But it's worse than that, because it means I can't expect to start just anywhere I want in the song file and expect to hear the right sounds. I can only start where I know that a mod wheel setting has been entered. So all this bumf about Giga import, and controlling bank selection in EXS24 is just bumf because you can't do that in Logic. I'm not just complaining. I've tried every setting in the book, and 'no reset' on the instrument (cabled to the softsynth), it all just doesn't work. Sometimes I wonder why I bother. Maybe it was that one year learning curve back in the 1980s with C-Lab Notator! If anyone has managed to make this group selection by controller number work for them, please let me know how. I'm at wits end. I say all of the above with great respect for everyone on this list and hope nobody takes offense at the frustrated tone. We've all been there I imagine: hours spent on BS rather than creating music! Cheers! John