EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Just like most of you, I was disapointed when I heard that Apple was 
buying Emagic. I am not an expert like many of you and still I have 
invested quite a lot of money with Emagic (Logic 5, EMI2/6, AMT8, 
AW8) and was planning to buy EXS24 before July 1st. Even though I 
will not, in the near future, move to Cubase or Sonar, I am asking 
myself which soft sampler to acquire. Possibly one of you could 
advice me on this.

I am using a P4 with 2.2a and 1 Gb of Ram. I am using mostly 
orchestral instruments (like Miroslav on Akai etc...)and I like a 
software that has the minimum of bugs and a good integration with 
Emagic.  Quality of translated sounds is also important.

Thank you in advance for all your answers !

Herge

personally, I have a bit of a problem with setting up EXS for 
expressive sounds because of the current lack of a velocity-crossfade 
facility. I'd like to be able to set up a string set played two 
different ways and have some way of playing the "mix" by velocity or 
controller. 

At the moment you don't seem to ba able to do this with EXS, except 
by setting up a two different patches on two different EXS's, and 
then using the environment to construct a splitter and velocity 
remapper, or straight and inverted volume controls, and once you've 
tweeked that setup, you can't save it as a single EXS patch. :-(

/Presumably/ when EXS imports velocity-crossfaded patches it turns 
them into velocity splits? ... which is really not the same thing.

Then again, a new version of EXS is supposed to be included in the 
5.2 upgrade pencilled in for next month, and they are supposed to be 
adding individual outputs, so maybe they are also adding xfade 
facilities, dunno.

=Erk=