EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 17:47 +0000 29/08/00, Josh Brown wrote:
>This user seems to be saying that the EXS24 is un-playable on a
>G4/400/320/2408MkII with a buffer setting of 512 or above, and that
>lower than that there are clicks and pops.

I don't have the EXS yet. With the ES1 & a setting of 256 the 
response is comparable to MIDI, still more or less acceptable with 
512, and 1024 - forget it. My problem is that the setting I need for 
most of my projects is 2048 samples. Of course, whenever I need to 
play the ES I could bounce all my audio to stereo, close Logic, open 
the 2408's control panel, change the buffer setting to 256, re-open 
my song, record the ES1 tracks, re-close, re-change the buffer 
settings to 2048 & re-re-open the song, but it's such a hassle that I 
prefer to use a similar-sounding MIDI patch for recording. Hence my 
suggestion to enable bi-directional communication between an EXS and 
a S3000 (through SCSI &/or Zip cartridges), the latter being used 
just for recording EXS parts (and playing them live)

>This worries, concerns
>and disturbs me quite a bit because I just spent 3500 dollars so that
>I could have this system and am now wondering if I should have waited
>another year.

Well, if 256 is the setting you want for latency and 2048 is the 
setting your 400 Mhz CPU wants to give you the DSP you need, only a 
3200 Mhz G4 will solve your problem - I'm not sure if they are 
scheduled for next year ! ;-)

BTW cards directly supported by Logic should give less latency... 
maybe a solution would be to add an AW8 to your setup and use it only 
for playing virtual instruments... unless using two cards instead of 
one would take a lot of CPU power as well...