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Hi all,
I'm planning on selling my Roland S760 to using the EXS24. But 
I'm worried in case I make a mistake. Its just I love the filters in 
the S760 and it also has a very nice warm bottom end on the 
sounds. How does the EXS24 compare filter wise and sound 
wise? Has anyone else moved from hardware to software 
sampler? What were your experiences? Will I regret selling the 
Roland?
Cheers,
John

I moved from yamaha a4000 to EXS24 few months ago and I really don¹t look
back! Yamaha suffered slow SCSI transfer speed, it was pain to transfer
samples from my mac to it. I liked yamahas filters, but I think EXS's are
even better. I had 4 gb drive inside my A4000 and I was not able to move my
entire sample library in it. Now I have 120 gb hd and virtually unlimited
space. I think in studio theres no use for hardware sampler anymore.

timo

> Hi all,
> I'm planning on selling my Roland S760 to using the EXS24. But
> I'm worried in case I make a mistake. Its just I love the filters in
> the S760 and it also has a very nice warm bottom end on the
> sounds. How does the EXS24 compare filter wise and sound
> wise? Has anyone else moved from hardware to software
> sampler? What were your experiences? Will I regret selling the
> Roland?

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "johnplaiduk <tallukjon@a...>" 
<tallukjon@a...> wrote:
...
> What were your experiences? Will I regret selling the 
> Roland?

I rather liked the Roland sample libraries, and still miss those nice 
playable instruments (don't know if there's a handy way to port 'em 
across, or how well it'd work).

I toyed for a while with the idea of getting an old Roland sampler 
just to get access to the library, but in the end decided to stay 
software-only 
(Mind you ... if Roland brought out a softsampler or soft sample-
player bundled with those libraries, I'd be sorely tempted to get 
it). 

EXS24 mkII is great as a general-purpose, low-CPU-usage, fast-to-use  
sampler, but it might not have all the bells and whistles that you 
might be used to. The convenience counts for a lot, though. 
Depends on the sorts of instruments that you use, if you want to 
adjust the envelopes and controllers of individual drums in a kit, 
EXS might not be comprehensive enough. Dunno.

Erk

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "johnplaiduk <tallukjon@a...>" 
<tallukjon@a...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm planning on selling my Roland S760 to using the EXS24. But 
> I'm worried in case I make a mistake. Its just I love the filters 
in 
> the S760 and it also has a very nice warm bottom end on the 
> sounds. How does the EXS24 compare filter wise and sound 
> wise? Has anyone else moved from hardware to software 
> sampler? What were your experiences? Will I regret selling the 
> Roland?
> Cheers,
> John

My thoughts 
Don't sell the roland, it's not worth anything and all the S-range 
have really nice qualities, use them both, now that I can afford it 
I'm still looking all those items I sold off because of that grass is 
greener on the other side.
Jamie

>The filter in the EXS does not sound like an analog filter.  It sounds
>like a virtual analog filter.  In other words, artificial, plasticky.  I
>do use it all the time though because of it's convenience.
>I wouldn't solo it though.

I used to swear by the EMU e6400 which has killer filters, but the 
convenience and flexibility of the EXS has won me around. I now only use EMU 
for those moments when you need that intestinal punishing bass sound or some 
other special filter effect.

now the EXS mk II has more filters I go back even less, there is definitely 
a difference in quality between the two [EMU creamy sound, EXS a little more 
clinical] but even so I find that 'Translator' has converted across most of 
the bread and butter sounds that I used to use pretty well and they still 
sit in the mix just as well.

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I'm an EXS24 newbie and I just bought Xtreme Analog.
I've built a few multi-sampled instruments, but the filters are still kind of a
mystery to me. When I looked at some of the Xtreme Analog patches in the
editor, it's plain to see that the filters are a huge part of the sound.

So, my question...
Is there a decent tutorial around that discusses the use of filters in a
serious sampler? (I guess it doesn't neccisarily have to be the EXS24)

I've got the EXS24 manual, but it's very thin.
(for that matter... where can you go to read about keyswitching?...)

Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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and sound comes out the other end and 
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> The filter in the EXS does not sound like an analog filter.  It sounds
> like a virtual analog filter.  In other words, artificial, plasticky.

I don't think the S-series have an analog filter either :-). I've heard a
lot of filters and I still think the EXS is one of the best virual analogs
(next to Mercury1, VirSyn, Virus, Waldorf and Fromage). Never got plastic
visions while using it! What I like most are the artefacts that come up when
cranking up the drive and resonance. It has a lot of personlality.

> I wouldn't solo it though.
That's certainly what I do! Got myself an EXSP24 to do it in Cubase SX.

Eppo Schaap
Galbatron Epic Symphonic Electronica
www.galbatron.com
music: www.mp3.com/galbatron

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

From: Eppo Schaap <eschaap@...>

> > The filter in the EXS does not sound like an analog filter.  It sounds
> > like a virtual analog filter.  In other words, artificial, plasticky.
>
> I don't think the S-series have an analog filter either :-). I've heard a
> lot of filters and I still think the EXS is one of the best virual analogs
> (next to Mercury1, VirSyn, Virus, Waldorf and Fromage)

The new Novation VSTi should have great filters too.

Hector.

The filter in the EXS does not sound like an analog filter.  It sounds
like a virtual analog filter.  In other words, artificial, plasticky.  I
do use it all the time though because of it's convenience.
I wouldn't solo it though.

-----Original Message-----
From: bitesound2001 <bitesound@...>
[mailto:bitesound@...] 
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:18 AM
To: exs-users@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [exs] Re: Don't own EXS yet, but need some help
 
--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "johnplaiduk <tallukjon@a...>" 
<tallukjon@a...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm planning on selling my Roland S760 to using the EXS24. But 
> I'm worried in case I make a mistake. Its just I love the filters 
in 
> the S760 and it also has a very nice warm bottom end on the 
> sounds. How does the EXS24 compare filter wise and sound 
> wise? Has anyone else moved from hardware to software 
> sampler? What were your experiences? Will I regret selling the 
> Roland?
> Cheers,
> John

My thoughts 
Don't sell the roland, it's not worth anything and all the S-range 
have really nice qualities, use them both, now that I can afford it 
I'm still looking all those items I sold off because of that grass is 
greener on the other side.
Jamie 





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j regret selling any instrument




johnplaiduk <tallukjon@...> wrote on 2/20/03 12:45 pm:

Hi all,
I'm planning on selling my Roland S760 to using the EXS24. But
I'm worried in case I make a mistake. Its just I love the filters in the
S760 and it also has a very nice warm bottom end on the sounds. How does the
EXS24 compare filter wise and sound wise? Has anyone else moved from
hardware to software sampler? What were your experiences? Will I regret
selling the Roland?
Cheers,
John





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