EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I'm planning on getting the Logic Audio Express. I will use a lot of
samples with the EXSP sampler including Sam Horns, Westlake Woodwinds
and Sonic strings. Will the EXSPlayer (or multiple EXS players) in
Express handle this, or does this require the EXS mark II in the Pro
version? I'm on a G4 MDD 1.24DP, OS10.2.8. Thanks

On a fine day, 31-01-2004, betina22000 wrote:

>I'm planning on getting the Logic Audio Express. I will use a lot of
>samples with the EXSP sampler including Sam Horns, Westlake Woodwinds
>and Sonic strings. Will the EXSPlayer (or multiple EXS players) in
>Express handle this, or does this require the EXS mark II in the Pro
>version? I'm on a G4 MDD 1.24DP, OS10.2.8. Thanks

The biggest shortcoming of the EXSP vs the EXS (apart from the 
obvious fact that the P is just a player and won't let you edit 
instruments) is that the EXSP doesn't support streaming from disk. 
That means that it has to load all samples in RAM, which will cause 
problems if you try to play a 2-gigabyte acoustic grand piano on a 
512 MB machine.  I don't know how big the instruments are you plan on 
using, but this might be a consideration.  Obviously even with 
relatively small instruments you'll also run into problems if you try 
to load 50 of them -- the sum of the loaded instruments shouldn't 
exceed the available physical RAM.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/

Thanks, Hendrik -- that's what I was afraid of. I try to get a fairly
large orchestration (traditional classical). I do, however, have 2G of
RAM. I guess I'll have to struggle along with that and Express until I
can upgrade to Pro.



--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:

> On a fine day, 31-01-2004, betina22000 wrote:
> 
> >I'm planning on getting the Logic Audio Express. I will use a lot of
> >samples with the EXSP sampler including Sam Horns, Westlake Woodwinds
> >and Sonic strings. Will the EXSPlayer (or multiple EXS players) in
> >Express handle this, or does this require the EXS mark II in the Pro
> >version? I'm on a G4 MDD 1.24DP, OS10.2.8. Thanks
> 
> The biggest shortcoming of the EXSP vs the EXS (apart from the 
> obvious fact that the P is just a player and won't let you edit 
> instruments) is that the EXSP doesn't support streaming from disk. 
> That means that it has to load all samples in RAM, which will cause 
> problems if you try to play a 2-gigabyte acoustic grand piano on a 
> 512 MB machine.  I don't know how big the instruments are you plan on 
> using, but this might be a consideration.  Obviously even with 
> relatively small instruments you'll also run into problems if you try 
> to load 50 of them -- the sum of the loaded instruments shouldn't 
> exceed the available physical RAM.
> 
> -- 
> Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
> Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/