EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hello EXS people,

Thanks for the responses to my letter re not being able to get Steinway 
D to appear in EXS.

I figured it out - I had installed the 24 bit steinway only. When i, in 
addition,  installed the 16 bit Steinway in the proper place, 
everything was available in EXS.

Now I'm using the  "basic" Steinway OK.
It's "good" but not quite good enough. I think need to tweak some 
parameters in EXS to get the richness i want. Also, it's a little too 
dry to me. I tried adding Logic reverb and it seemed to kill the 
presence a little.

Apart from that I'm having a ball with it.


If anybody out there has experience with PMI keyboards and can suggest  
how-to-tweak, I'd like to hear from you.

Thanks,
larry

On 22.06.2006, at 17:02, Larry lewis wrote:

> Now I'm using the  "basic" Steinway OK.
> It's "good" but not quite good enough. I think need to tweak some
> parameters in EXS to get the richness i want. Also, it's a little too
> dry to me. I tried adding Logic reverb and it seemed to kill the
> presence a little.

If cautious EQ'ing does not help more richness could mean a bit of  
compression. The Logic compressor is quite good for small amounts on  
natural instruments.

Regarding Logic reverbs: which one did you use? Space Designer should  
work great. Maybe the Apple Matrix Reverb is clean enough, don't know.

If you want a third party synthetical reverb which is more or less  
specialized on acoustical instruments you might try these two:

Ambience
Freeware, recommended from Garritan.

ArtsAcoustic Reverb
190 USD/EUR, very good for almost all natural sounds.

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Btw - if you own Ozone, try its reverb on the piano. It is clean and  
neutral.

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Peter Ostry