EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Is there a way of running the EXS24 as a stand alone app and
triggered 
from a Protools midi track? We have the ESB. Also I can select the 
EXS24 as a direct connect-able plug-in but cannot find a standalone 
EXS24 app.
Is that what the EXSP24 is? Or is that just for use with VST?
Phew!! I'm about as confused as I can get with this one......
Ideally I just want to run Protools with the EXS24 as a standalone
OMS 
accessible plug-in. Triggered from a midi track in Protools and 
returning on an Aux or Audio track in the Protools mixer. Is that
just 
a dream?
Any ideas?

I'm no expert, but hear is some info to help ya out..


EXS24 = Native Logic Only

EXSP24 = VST Instrument Only

None of these run standalone.


FXpansion VST/VST Instrument -> RTAS Wrapper (so you can run EXSP24 
and other VST Instrument in Pro Tools) = $99

EXSP24 (if you don't own it) is on sale at AudioMidi.com for $120

Alternatively I think you can get EXS24 to work as part of Emagic's 
System Bridge (ESB).  Since I do not use ESB I don't know enough 
about it but perhaps it's an another possibility for you.


Good luck!



--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "seaviewseaworld" <seaview@s...> 
wrote:
> Is there a way of running the EXS24 as a stand alone app and
> triggered 
> from a Protools midi track? We have the ESB. Also I can select the 
> EXS24 as a direct connect-able plug-in but cannot find a 
standalone 

> EXS24 app.
> Is that what the EXSP24 is? Or is that just for use with VST?
> Phew!! I'm about as confused as I can get with this one......
> Ideally I just want to run Protools with the EXS24 as a standalone
> OMS 
> accessible plug-in. Triggered from a midi track in Protools and 
> returning on an Aux or Audio track in the Protools mixer. Is that
> just 
> a dream?
> Any ideas?

Hi,

>Is there a way of running the EXS24 as a stand alone app and
>triggered 
>from a Protools midi track? We have the ESB. Also I can select the 
>EXS24 as a direct connect-able plug-in but cannot find a standalone 
>EXS24 app.

There is no stand alone EXS24. Emapple have chosen to sell it only as
part of Logic. Its the main reason i dropped it ages ago as my sampler. 
With the ESB you can access the EXS24 from within a Logic/PTools hardware 
setup. It works well, though some people find the initial setup difficult.

>Is that what the EXSP24 is? Or is that just for use with VST?

Its a VST plugin that is a playback-only version of the EXS24. There
are some parameters available to tweak like adsr and filter i believe,
but you cant save any settings.

>Phew!! I'm about as confused as I can get with this one......

Emagic have always had a convoluted way of doing things :-)

>Ideally I just want to run Protools with the EXS24 as a standalone
>OMS accessible plug-in. Triggered from a midi track in Protools and 
>returning on an Aux or Audio track in the Protools mixer. Is that
>just a dream?

Forget the EXS24 if you dont use Logic as your main seq. Look
at MachFive by Motu - it is cross-platform and supports rtas, hdtdm, 
vst, au, dxi, mas and imports exs24 progs as well as just about 
everything else. Its a beast of a sampler and by far the best out there
imho.

www.motu.com

cheers,
Adam

From: "Adam Pendse" <adampendse@...>

>Is that what the EXSP24 is? Or is that just for use with VST?

Its a VST plugin that is a playback-only version of the EXS24. There
are some parameters available to tweak like adsr and filter i believe,
but you cant save any settings.

Huh?  I don't think that's right.  All the ADSR, LFO, etc. settings on the
front of the GUI are saveable as a preset.

Gregory 


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>Its a VST plugin that is a playback-only version of the EXS24. There
>are some parameters available to tweak like adsr and filter i believe,
>but you cant save any settings.

>Huh?  I don't think that's right.  All the ADSR, LFO, etc. settings on the
>front of the GUI are saveable as a preset.

Ok - i was thinking - these settings would probably get saved as part of the
song file anyway. More importantly, with regard to the original post, the
EXSP24 is not for creating samples/programs etc. I only looked at it for
about 2 seconds.

Adam