EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Ray,

Send your disc or a copy of it to Emagic Germany attention to Clemens 
Homburg, describing the problem. They've been very good about improving the 
conversion. It just takes a little time to get it right!

From the Spectrasonics staff

In a message dated 10/12/00 7:26:47 PM, rpalagy@... writes:

>I am running the EXS in my LAMP 4.1.5 on my G4 and trying to 
>convert my S1000/3000 library.  I take a CD - a 32 meg piano 
>disk for example.  It loads fine into my S3000.  When I convert 
>and play a program in the EXS I get the pitches completely 
>wrong!  Some things are an octave up, some are not.  When you 
>play up the keyboard you get some extremely screwed up scale.  
>There's no prefs for pitch offsets and disabling pitch or changing 
>volumes on all keygroups at once (that I can find.)  Still I wonder 
>why this conversion is wrong.  Note that this is NOT a mixed 
>mode cd but a stock AKAI disk.  I did convert some simple drum 
>kits successfully though.  This was a larger program and it was 
>true stereo with files labled .L and .R.  I don't know if these are 
>any clues....

on 13/10/00 2:31 PM, PersingEP@... at PersingEP@... wrote:

> 
> Ray,
> 
> Send your disc or a copy of it to Emagic Germany attention to Clemens
> Homburg, describing the problem. They've been very good about improving the
> conversion. It just takes a little time to get it right!
> 
>> From the Spectrasonics staff
> 
> In a message dated 10/12/00 7:26:47 PM, rpalagy@... writes:
> 
>> I am running the EXS in my LAMP 4.1.5 on my G4 and trying to
>> convert my S1000/3000 library.  I take a CD - a 32 meg piano
>> disk for example.  It loads fine into my S3000.  When I convert
>> and play a program in the EXS I get the pitches completely
>> wrong!  Some things are an octave up, some are not.  When you
>> play up the keyboard you get some extremely screwed up scale.
>> There's no prefs for pitch offsets and disabling pitch or changing
>> volumes on all keygroups at once (that I can find.)  Still I wonder
>> why this conversion is wrong.  Note that this is NOT a mixed
>> mode cd but a stock AKAI disk.  I did convert some simple drum
>> kits successfully though.  This was a larger program and it was
>> true stereo with files labled .L and .R.  I don't know if these are
>> any clues....
> 
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As a matter of interest Eric are the Groove Control CD Roms converting ok in
ESX24 now?
Phil Buckle.
PS is Back beats available yet?

In a message dated 10/12/00 10:51:31 PM, pbuckle@... writes:

>As a matter of interest Eric are the Groove Control CD Roms converting
>ok in
>ESX24 now?
>Phil Buckle.
>PS is Back beats available yet?

Yes, the S-3000 format (including our Groove Control products and Vocal 
Planet), are working fine since the 4.5.1 update. 

A little hint to EXS crowd, try boosting the Output Level up to 0db after 
converting from AKAI CD-ROMs. This sounds MUCH better for drums and grooves 
(and most sounds actually). This parameter is ONLY on the Controls page and 
not on the standard Editor panel. The EXS defaults at -12db which sounds much 
thinner than necessary. Future EXS versions may have a headroom parameter 
adjustable from the Akai conversion page to save the hassle of currently 
having to tweak and resave every current Instrument.

Backbeat will hopefully be out before years end. Vocal Planet epic 5 CD-ROM 
set finally finished and shipping very soon!

more info at:

www.spectrasonics.net

Best regards,

Eric Persing
Spectrasonics

on 10/13/00 12:43 AM, Phil Buckle at pbuckle@... wrote:

> on 13/10/00 2:31 PM, PersingEP@... at PersingEP@... wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Ray,
>> 
>> Send your disc or a copy of it to Emagic Germany attention to Clemens
>> Homburg, describing the problem. They've been very good about improving the
>> conversion. It just takes a little time to get it right!
>> 
>>> From the Spectrasonics staff
>> 
>> In a message dated 10/12/00 7:26:47 PM, rpalagy@... writes:
>> 
>>> I am running the EXS in my LAMP 4.1.5 on my G4 and trying to
>>> convert my S1000/3000 library.  I take a CD - a 32 meg piano
>>> disk for example.  It loads fine into my S3000.  When I convert
>>> and play a program in the EXS I get the pitches completely
>>> wrong!  Some things are an octave up, some are not.  When you
>>> play up the keyboard you get some extremely screwed up scale.
>>> There's no prefs for pitch offsets and disabling pitch or changing
>>> volumes on all keygroups at once (that I can find.)  Still I wonder
>>> why this conversion is wrong.  Note that this is NOT a mixed
>>> mode cd but a stock AKAI disk.  I did convert some simple drum
>>> kits successfully though.  This was a larger program and it was
>>> true stereo with files labled .L and .R.  I don't know if these are
>>> any clues....

>> 
> As a matter of interest Eric are the Groove Control CD Roms converting ok in
> ESX24 now?
> Phil Buckle.
> PS is Back beats available yet?
> 

> 
> 
Yes, GC work fine. The retro funk is lots of fun. The click problem was
resolved with an upgrade about a month ago. Oddly, the solution was in the
v4.5.1 update of Logic. There is (was?) no direction to this solution from
any of the ESX windows of the emagic.de website. This may also be the
solution to the tuning problem as well.
Regards,

    Shane


-- 
Shane Fawkes, 
Director of Music, 
Walnut Grove Secondary School,
Langley, B.C. Canada

shanefawkes@...

Still haven't sent disc but found that my old 1991 Lightwave AKAI 
CD's load ok into EXS even though they seem not to be able to 
see every partition.  I would love Emagic to reply to this post as 
Dave Smith in U.S. says he has never heard about this problem 
and clearly I am not the only user with this problem!  Note that I 
am using a Sweetwater purchased version of EXS - NO "kracks".

Ray Palagy, Sync Sound, NYC
> >> 
> >> Ray,
> >> 
> >> Send your disc or a copy of it to Emagic Germany attention 
to Clemens
> >> Homburg, describing the problem. They've been very good 
about improving the
> >> conversion. It just takes a little time to get it right!
> >> 
> >>> From the Spectrasonics staff
> >> 
> >> In a message dated 10/12/00 7:26:47 PM, rpalagy@n... 
writes:
> >> 
> >>> I am running the EXS in my LAMP 4.1.5 on my G4 and 
trying to
> >>> convert my S1000/3000 library.  I take a CD - a 32 meg 
piano
> >>> disk for example.  It loads fine into my S3000.  When I 
convert
> >>> and play a program in the EXS I get the pitches completely
> >>> wrong!  Some things are an octave up, some are not.  
When you
> >>> play up the keyboard you get some extremely screwed up 
scale.
> >>> There's no prefs for pitch offsets and disabling pitch or 
changing
> >>> volumes on all keygroups at once (that I can find.)  Still I 
wonder
> >>> why this conversion is wrong.  Note that this is NOT a 
mixed
> >>> mode cd but a stock AKAI disk.  I did convert some simple 
drum
> >>> kits successfully though.  This was a larger program and it 
was
> >>> true stereo with files labled .L and .R.  I don't know if these 
are
> >>> any clues....
> 
> >> 
> > As a matter of interest Eric are the Groove Control CD Roms 
converting ok in
> > ESX24 now?
> > Phil Buckle.
> > PS is Back beats available yet?
> > 
> 
> > 
> > 
> Yes, GC work fine. The retro funk is lots of fun. The click 
problem was
> resolved with an upgrade about a month ago. Oddly, the 
solution was in the
> v4.5.1 update of Logic. There is (was?) no direction to this 
solution from
> any of the ESX windows of the emagic.de website. This may 
also be the

> solution to the tuning problem as well.
> Regards,
> 
>     Shane
> 
> 
> -- 
> Shane Fawkes, 
> Director of Music, 
> Walnut Grove Secondary School,
> Langley, B.C. Canada
> 
> shanefawkes@h...