EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I recently bought EXS thinking I'd try out a software-based sampler 
to see if it was good enough that I wouldn't still long for a 
hardware-based solution.  When I tried it out I experienced some
noticeable latency when playing the EXS in real-time, but to be
fair this is the kind of tradeoff I expected in a software-based 
solution and presumably the problem goes away in playback.  On the 
other hand there was something not quite right with the sound.  
Samples like organs sounded great, but some of the samples like piano 
had this weird aftertone that I think is referred to as an aliasing 
problem.  For instance I loaded up a 64 Mb Akai piano sample and it 
didn't sound any better than some < 1Mb samples I've heard.  A number 
of the samples that came with EXS24 also displayed this problem.  My
question is, is this typical or is there something wrong with my
setup and/or have I found some kind of bug?  I'm running EXS on a 
400 Mhz B&W G3 with 448 Mb of memory and using a Motu 2408.  I'm 
running OS9 with virtual memory off.  I pretty sure the problem is 
just with EXS because all my audio tracks in Logic sound great as do 
all the Logic effects plugin's.  Help!!!  Thanks.

Same problem over here (latency). I was last week at the Frankfurter 
Messe and the people from the Emagic booth said it had to do with the 
sound card i'm using (lexicon core-2);
of course there was a solution...the emi2|6. I must say it worked 
great, no (hearable) latency.

--- In exs-users@y..., thornton@a... wrote:
> I recently bought EXS thinking I'd try out a software-based sampler 
> to see if it was good enough that I wouldn't still long for a 
> hardware-based solution.  When I tried it out I experienced some
> noticeable latency when playing the EXS in real-time, but to be
> fair this is the kind of tradeoff I expected in a software-based 
> solution and presumably the problem goes away in playback.  On the 
> other hand there was something not quite right with the sound.  
> Samples like organs sounded great, but some of the samples like 
piano 
> had this weird aftertone that I think is referred to as an aliasing 
> problem.  For instance I loaded up a 64 Mb Akai piano sample and it 
> didn't sound any better than some < 1Mb samples I've heard.  A 
number 
> of the samples that came with EXS24 also displayed this problem.  My
> question is, is this typical or is there something wrong with my
> setup and/or have I found some kind of bug?  I'm running EXS on a 
> 400 Mhz B&W G3 with 448 Mb of memory and using a Motu 2408.  I'm 
> running OS9 with virtual memory off.  I pretty sure the problem is 
> just with EXS because all my audio tracks in Logic sound great as 
do 
> all the Logic effects plugin's.  Help!!!  Thanks.

The EXS is not supposed to adversely affect the sound quality of your
samples. If this is happening, there is something else wrong with your
setup. It is possible, however, that the method of converting the AKAI piano
to EXS is not mature enough to address velocity zones correctly. You may
need to try another conversion too, as opposed to the built-in AKAI support.
The sound quality of the samples, in any case, remains unchanged. -Jer

PS: the EXS stock sounds absolutely suck. I only use to the the bundled
instruments. The value is in the tool, not the accompanying library.

> From: thornton@...
> Reply-To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 02:33:50 -0000
> To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [exs] Sound not quite right - am I doing something wrong?
> 
> I recently bought EXS thinking I'd try out a software-based sampler
> to see if it was good enough that I wouldn't still long for a
> hardware-based solution.  When I tried it out I experienced some
> noticeable latency when playing the EXS in real-time, but to be
> fair this is the kind of tradeoff I expected in a software-based
> solution and presumably the problem goes away in playback.  On the
> other hand there was something not quite right with the sound.
> Samples like organs sounded great, but some of the samples like piano
> had this weird aftertone that I think is referred to as an aliasing
> problem.  For instance I loaded up a 64 Mb Akai piano sample and it
> didn't sound any better than some < 1Mb samples I've heard.  A number
> of the samples that came with EXS24 also displayed this problem.  My
> question is, is this typical or is there something wrong with my
> setup and/or have I found some kind of bug?  I'm running EXS on a
> 400 Mhz B&W G3 with 448 Mb of memory and using a Motu 2408.  I'm
> running OS9 with virtual memory off.  I pretty sure the problem is
> just with EXS because all my audio tracks in Logic sound great as do
> all the Logic effects plugin's.  Help!!!  Thanks.
> 
> 
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In my last post, the phrase "conversion too" should have read "conversion
tool" -Jer