EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At the 123rd AES Convention in New York, Redmatica unveiled Keymap  
One V1.5, the newest entry in the Redmatica Keymap family of sampled  
instruments editors for Mac OSX.

Keymap One 1.5 delivers the key features and workflow of the flagship  
Redmatica Keymap 1.5 instrument editor, including Logic 8  
integration, at a groundbreaking price for users that simply do not  
need all the hi-end features of Keymap, but still want to use the  
most modern sampling environment available today.

The integration with Logic is made through a new Organizer Window  
which shows the active editing sessions between the two applications,  
and instruments can be sent back and forth with a single click. The  
list of supported file formats includes EXS24, GarageBand, Ultrabeat  
(.ubs) and EXS24-Monolithic, a new format where each instrument and  
its samples are stored as a single file. The EXS24 format is one of  
the most supported formats in the industry, and directly imported by  
Native Instruments Kontakt, Digidesign Structure, Motu MachFive2 and  
Steinberg Halion.

Keymap One offers a sophisticated workflow, export of the processed  
samples directly by drag and drop, built-in Sample and Loop editors,  
a Setup editor for combining and merging instruments, and extended  
key commands support. Keymap One provides the same powerful  
Autolooping functions of Keymap, so that samples can be easily looped  
with a minimum effort.

Pricing & Availability

Keymap One 1.5 is available starting today, at a suggested retail  
price of 100.00 Euro (roughly 150.00 USD) from the Redmatica Web  
Store and authorized distributors.

More informations about system requirements, pdf manuals and videos  
can be found at www.redmatica.com.

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica

Hey Andrea,

My name is Willie Dowling and I¹ve been using your programme  EXSManager Pro
(I¹m currently v 2.9.2) for some time now.

I compose music mostly for film and television (www.williedowling.co.uk)
interjected with occasional band projects, and I¹m just about to start a new
film wherein one of the key instruments is a Welsh pump organ. This is
comprised of all home made samples which I recently, for the very first
time, crudely imported the samples into an EXS24 instrument. No looping,
nothing complex. Just simple import each sample to a Zone on each key note I
sampled, tell the sample the range of notes it is to play over, even out the
volumes a little and make minor adjustments to sample start times, and
that¹s about it. And it works ok. Sustain a note too long and it just stops
of course, but the thought of learning how to loop over each sample is too
daunting and time consuming.

But I¹ve been following the recent traffic in the Logic user groups with
interest, and it seems that your keymap one (if I¹m right in what I think
I¹ve understood!) is the intelligent and simple way to do this kind of
import job much more efficiently. I should stress that for the most part I
rely on my rather huge music library which I use within EXS24 and rarely
even edit sounds, let alone create my own, but I do have a number of folders
of wav samples of various instruments , including the pump organ, that are
currently unused simply because I¹m not that experienced in creating my own
EXS instruments from scratch, and whenever I¹ve tried it seems extremely
time consuming.

Would I be correct in thinking that this new program of yours would be ideal
for me, and is it really as simple as people are suggesting, given that not
only am I inexperienced at this kind of thing, I am also intensely lazy!

I would appreciate any advice you may have.

I run a G5 quad OSX 10.4.8, using Logic Pro ver 7.2.3 combining a DAE-TDM
environment with core audio.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Willie Dowling
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> 
> At the 123rd AES Convention in New York, Redmatica unveiled Keymap
> One V1.5, the newest entry in the Redmatica Keymap family of sampled
> instruments editors for Mac OSX.
> 
> Keymap One 1.5 delivers the key features and workflow of the flagship
> Redmatica Keymap 1.5 instrument editor, including Logic 8
> integration, at a groundbreaking price for users that simply do not
> need all the hi-end features of Keymap, but still want to use the
> most modern sampling environment available today.
> 
> The integration with Logic is made through a new Organizer Window
> which shows the active editing sessions between the two applications,
> and instruments can be sent back and forth with a single click. The
> list of supported file formats includes EXS24, GarageBand, Ultrabeat
> (.ubs) and EXS24-Monolithic, a new format where each instrument and
> its samples are stored as a single file. The EXS24 format is one of
> the most supported formats in the industry, and directly imported by
> Native Instruments Kontakt, Digidesign Structure, Motu MachFive2 and
> Steinberg Halion.
> 
> Keymap One offers a sophisticated workflow, export of the processed
> samples directly by drag and drop, built-in Sample and Loop editors,
> a Setup editor for combining and merging instruments, and extended
> key commands support. Keymap One provides the same powerful
> Autolooping functions of Keymap, so that samples can be easily looped
> with a minimum effort.
> 
> Pricing & Availability
> 
> Keymap One 1.5 is available starting today, at a suggested retail
> price of 100.00 Euro (roughly 150.00 USD) from the Redmatica Web
> Store and authorized distributors.
> 
> More informations about system requirements, pdf manuals and videos
> can be found at www.redmatica.com.
> 
> Best Regards
> Andrea at Redmatica
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Willie sent me this message as a personal email to which I replied,  
but as he also posted here.... I'm copying my reply for everyone.

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica


On 15/Oct / 2007, at 7:49 PM, Willie Dowling wrote:
> Hey Andrea,
>
> My name is Willie Dowling and I’ve been using your programme   
> EXSManager Pro (I’m currently v 2.9.2) for some time now.
>
> I compose music mostly for film and television  
> (www.williedowling.co.uk) interjected with occasional band  
> projects, and I’m just about to start a new film wherein one of the  
> key instruments is a Welsh pump organ. This is comprised of all  
> home made samples which I recently, for the very first time,  
> crudely imported the samples into an EXS24 instrument. No looping,  
> nothing complex. Just simple import each sample to a Zone on each  
> key note I sampled, tell the sample the range of notes it is to  
> play over, even out the volumes a little and make minor adjustments  
> to sample start times, and that’s about it. And it works ok.  
> Sustain a note too long and it just stops of course, but the  
> thought of learning how to loop over each sample is too daunting  
> and time consuming.

Hello Willie,
my personal experience too is that with the traditional tools you try  
doing these things once, and then twice, and then... you stop,  
because it's too boring and time consuming. Keymap was designed  
exactly out of my frustration with current tools and to make  
instrument building/editing a great and simple experience.

>
>
> But I’ve been following the recent traffic in the Logic user groups  
> with interest, and it seems that your keymap one (if I’m right in  
> what I think I’ve understood!) is the intelligent and simple way to  
> do this kind of import job much more efficiently.

Keymap One is the entry level version, but contains the same looping  
and autolooping functions than Keymap (the bigger one), and is an  
excellent way to start editing/building your instruments. Respect to  
Keymap, in Keymap One you will miss some potentiallly useful things,  
as automapping by pitch detection (i.e. drag and drop instrument  
building), but you can always upgrade from Keymap One to Keymap for  
not much more than the difference (this upgrade is not yet available  
on the site, but will be in a few days).


> I should stress that for the most part I rely on my rather huge  
> music library which I use within EXS24 and rarely even edit sounds,  
> let alone create my own, but I do have a number of folders of wav  
> samples of various instruments , including the pump organ, that are  
> currently unused simply because I’m not that experienced in  
> creating my own EXS instruments from scratch, and whenever I’ve  
> tried it seems extremely time consuming.

Yes, but from the feedback we got from users, once the process  
becomes simple and fun, you have a huge incentive at building your  
own personal sounds/effects/drums, or at least that's what we see.

> Would I be correct in thinking that this new program of yours would  
> be ideal for me, and is it really as simple as people are  
> suggesting, given that not only am I inexperienced at this kind of  
> thing, I am also intensely lazy!

Well, i'll tell you one thing: i'm *very* lazy too, or at least I  
totally hate doing repetitive and boring tasks. That's why Redmatica  
focus is on apps that automate and take care of complex/repetitive/ 
boring things! The application is deep, meaning that you can do a  
tons of things with it, but we spent lot of time to make it simple to  
use, with great visualization at all times of what you do.

> I would appreciate any advice you may have.

I would try the freely available demo, and btw, if you want, why  
don't you send me 3 or 4 of your organ samples so I can check them  
and tell you if you can get a good result out of them? We are always  
interested in checking our apps against real world situations.

> I run a G5 quad OSX 10.4.8, using Logic Pro ver 7.2.3 combining a  
> DAE-TDM environment with core audio.

The configuration is good (especially as you have a quad), provided  
you have some decent amount of RAM (1GB is ok, but 2GB and more would  
be optimal).

Best Regards
Andrea at Redmatica