EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I recently bought the EXS 24 together with an Emagic 
Sample CD "xtreme analog:vol 1". I read the EXS 24 manual
attentively and i understand it's features and the enormous
power that it generates. 
Still got some questions (many more will follow):
How come whenever i load some Xtreem analog sample and i go
to the instrument editor many times there are "preconfigured"
zones in it, up to 42! I mean shoulded the IE be "clean" with
just 1 zone and 1 group, leaving the user to edit all he/she wants
and needs?
Those preconfigured zones contain audio files that are NOT
the one i selected in the first place. Many of those zone have
files which nr increment 6 per zone (zone 1: bass6, zone 2: bass 12).
Why is that?
I'm anxiously awaiting some spectrasonics cd's but in the meantime
i'll do with that Xtreem analog cd, which btw sounds great.
Are the above mentioned zone situations normal?Or CD rom related?
if so, what's the use of it?

----- Original Message ----- 

  From: kgheysen 


  >How come whenever i load some Xtreem analog sample and i go 
  >to the instrument editor many times there are "preconfigured"
  >zones in it, up to 42! I mean shoulded the IE be "clean" with
  >just 1 zone and 1 group, leaving the user to edit all he/she wants
  >and needs?
  This is called multisampling and is essential for a realistic reproduction of timbre across a range of octaves.   A single sample spread across the whole keyboard would not sound anything like the synth patch it was sampling.

  >I'm anxiously awaiting some spectrasonics cd's but in the meantime
  >i'll do with that Xtreem analog cd, which btw sounds great.

  If it sounds great, it is great, use it.

  Hector.
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> Those preconfigured zones contain audio files that are NOT
> the one i selected in the first place. Many of those zone have
> files which nr increment 6 per zone (zone 1: bass6, zone 2: bass 12).
> Why is that?

Because they are still multisampled instruments. They sampled the original
wave at different frequencies to get a more accurate representation. This
wouldn't be necessary if the waves were single cycle, but they aren't. If
you open any of the samples, you will see many cycles in each. That's why
multisampling across the board is necessary. Single cycle patches would
sound like the boards they are modeled after (such as the JP Supersaw)
unless the sampler itself had the same oscillator and mod architecture as
the modeled patch (which of course is not the case). If it was a single
cycle, it could be one sample mapped across the board, treated as a synth.
But in this case, it would sound much, much different. Perhaps good, but not
what it was modeled after.