EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi
Long time since I got involved.
I hope no-one laughs but what is a 'sound font' please.
Cheers
Lee
Lee Jones

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It´s a sound/sample format that the EXS is able to convert.

There are lots of soundfonts on the net to download!
Go ahead:

Michael 

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> I hope no-one laughs but what is a 'sound font' please.
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> I hope no-one laughs but what is a 'sound font' please.

A soundfont is like a widely understood sampler format.
From what I know it has been invented by Creative Labs (makers of
SoundBlaster) to suit their cards.
Basically it's a format with embedded samples. Contains all the "usual"
sampler info such as loops, key and velocity mappings.
It actually also contains things such as velocity to filter cutoff offset -
but as SoundBlaster cards are handling things quite a bit different than
other samplers (i.e., the offset setting has to be done on the zone itself
rather than through some global offset parameter), these things often aren't
translated too well. I do however think that both the latest versions of
CDxtract and Chickensys Translator convert those settings as well.

Regards,
Sascha

Hi Sascha,
I have a soundblaster live and Micrologic AV and I like to play with 
samples a lot, which I have downloaded from sites you have mentioned. 
The current setup seems to do OK, but I do not have EXS24. As I am a 
bit strapped for$ I am wondering is it possible to get a 'decent', 
lower latency card and use it to process the soundfonts, but continue 
to use MLAV and not require EXS24? Advice greatly apprec

--- In exs-users@y..., "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@s...> wrote:
> > I hope no-one laughs but what is a 'sound font' please.
> 
> A soundfont is like a widely understood sampler format.
> From what I know it has been invented by Creative Labs (makers of
> SoundBlaster) to suit their cards.
> Basically it's a format with embedded samples. Contains all 
the "usual"
> sampler info such as loops, key and velocity mappings.
> It actually also contains things such as velocity to filter cutoff 
offset -
> but as SoundBlaster cards are handling things quite a bit different 
than
> other samplers (i.e., the offset setting has to be done on the zone 
itself
> rather than through some global offset parameter), these things 
often aren't
> translated too well. I do however think that both the latest 
versions of

> CDxtract and Chickensys Translator convert those settings as well.
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha

Creative's "Audigy" card has good soundfont support, it gives you two 
virtual MIDI soundfont devices that each give you 16-channel 
multitimbrality (so you have a maximum of 32 soundfont instruments 
sitting there waiting to be played), and you can set up multiple 
banks of soundfonts to load into /each/ of the two devices 
independently, so you might have one device loaded up with 
alternative banks of GM-mapped soundfonts, and the other containing 
more specialised sounds.

Under Winlogic Plat 5 , if you are on the arrange page and set a 
track to one of those ports, the "bank/patch" selector thing at the 
left of the window will call up full list of all the soundbank names 
available for that device, and you can browse through the bank and 
patch name listings by mouse or with the keyboard. Don't know it it 
works the same on lower versions or under the mac.

If only logic's own instruments could be accessed this way! <g>


There are disadvantages: with the EXS you can mix down and treat and 
route instruments individually (or even split an individual 
instrument through individual outputs!), which is really convenient, 
especially when you are using logic's software "bounce" function.
With an Audigy playing those soundfonts, the things might sometimes 
sound or play better, and should put less load on your computer, but 
are much more difficult to mix and route, you probably only have a 
stereo mix to deal with. 
 


--- In exs-users@y..., "eromaled2002" <johndelamore@h...> wrote:
>
> As I am a 
> bit strapped for$ I am wondering is it possible to get a 'decent', 
> lower latency card and use it to process the soundfonts, but 
continue 
> to use MLAV and not require EXS24? Advice greatly apprec
>