EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Wow, that's nice news!
Also, very kind of Steve to allow those samples being hosted somewhere else
as well.

Cheers,
Sascha

--- Sascha Franck <S.Franck@...> wrote:
> Wow, that's nice news!
> Also, very kind of Steve to allow those samples
> being hosted somewhere else as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sascha
> 

    Hollow Sun is an amazing resource and Steve truly
is a great guy for putting it all together,and
cooperating with outside developers to get the library
out there in different formats.I've been working on a
comprehensive Reason ReFill of the Hollow Sun stuff
and he's been very helpful.And the way that the
project of porting the sounds into EXS has come
together is a remarkable example of the potential of
what an online community can do when people are
positive.Cheers to all involved in getting these
vintage samples to the community.

    Sascha,how's your Hollow Sun Kontakt project coming?

jonathan gibson wrote:
>     Sascha,how's your Hollow Sun Kontakt project coming?

Uh-oh... I just KNEW I forgot to reply to some mails in my inbox. Sorry for
that, will do later on, Jonathan.
The Kontakt conversions aren't all that bad, it just loads all the mappings
fine, but I thought I should at least spend some time to tweak things a bit.
Some of those samples can be used to do really great patches and I would at
least like to do a bit more than just mapping them.
Still getting familiar with Kontakt (Ease of use: EXS wins once you got your
patches done. Constructing patches quickly using the auto map feature: EXS
wins again. For anything else Kontakt just makes it look so much outdated,
the onboard options are simply hilarious...).

FWIW, I was trying to get used to Kontakt to eventually do the first step
into becoming a Cubase user again, so I could take advance of using the
machine I allready have.
But, having used Cubase SX for quite some days now (and I've been a Cubase
user allready, back in the old days...), a Mac starts to look really cheap,
compared to all the headaches I'm having...
Seriously, I have NEVER EVER seen such a badly layout on ANY audio program.
It's an ergonomic nightmare, horrorshow, wishes to look for a chainsaw
coming up (those Steinbergers are only 150km away...).
The weird thing is, SX might be pretty much ahead in terms of technical
features (and even kickass ones at that), but that simply doesn't help. What
do you do with a racing car that has the steering wheel hidden just
*somewhere*? Right, you drive as long as there are no curves... then you may
start looking for the steering wheel. But you won't find it at all! At least
not in SX.

My decision to buy a Mac now is clear. As bad as I still find the Apple
buyout, as much as I still wouldn't like to support such tactics, there's
just no other sequencer but Logic suiting my mindset. It doesn't keep me
away from making music, doesn't get in my way to track things quickly. SX
does all the time.

Regards,
Sascha