EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hi,

I'm running Logic Audio 5.5 on my iMac; I have both OS 9 and OS X 
running, and the only thing that stops me from moving to OS X 
completely is the fact that there's no Audio Units version of 
Sampletank and Loopazoid :-(
I've been playing with the 4-week-trial version of EXS24, and I like it 
a lot. BUT for me, that's quite an investment to make.
I read on the Emagic website that if you buy the EXSP24 (the player 
version), you get 500 MB of samples for free.
Is there a good piano on the CD???
For now, I'm quite happy with the Sampletank Free Piano. I know that 
there are better piano's out there (from Sampletank themselves, for 
example), but I'm not a pro pianist, so a piano of the same level as 
the Free Piano would be O.K.
I do like a fairly "classic" sound (not the "sharp" rock piano sound).

Thanks for any tips!

Regards
Jaap

> I read on the Emagic website that if you buy the EXSP24 (the player 
> version), you get 500 MB of samples for free.
> Is there a good piano on the CD???

Jaap, 
Supposing it's still the 'same old collection' that Emagic is 
shipping: no the Emagic piano is not that great and it's rather 
memory hungry.

I guess most members on this list would agree that the best free, 
available grand piano is the one you may download from the AKAI FTP-
site.

You can read on my site for further instructions 
(http://www.cone.nl/test/exs.htm)

Good luck

> Supposing it's still the 'same old collection' that Emagic is 
> shipping: no the Emagic piano is not that great and it's rather 
> memory hungry.
> 
> I guess most members on this list would agree that the best free, 
> available grand piano is the one you may download from the AKAI FTP-
> site.

I don't mind the Emagic Factory Piano, but it's definitely not the best 
I've heard, and the AKAI ones are WAY better.  Seeing as they are both 
free, I use the AKAI ones all the time now.  I had no problem importing 
them into my EXS24.

Cheers,
-Josh Emmons

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "ewald_kegel" 
<ekegel@c...> wrote:
> I guess most members on this list would agree that the best 
free, 
> available grand piano is the one you may download from the 
AKAI FTP-
> site.
> 
> You can read on my site for further instructions 
> (http://www.cone.nl/test/exs.htm)

I have never been able to download those samples.  I tried 
repeatedly many months ago, and again after reading this 
posting, but have always gotten a connection error.  It sounds 
like others are having no problem getting to the Akai FTP site.  
Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Gregory

At 15:36 Uhr +0000 04.08.2003, Gregory wrote:
>  It sounds
>like others are having no problem getting to the Akai FTP site.
>Am I doing something wrong?

Try a couple of times in a row
try at different times (consider different time zones)
try active/passive FTP (don't know which one is the one that works)

I've tried it lots of times and it didn't work but last week I 
downloaded all the libraries they have on there.

Cheers
Hans

Thanks to Garth Hjelte's assistance and a lot of persistence, I was finally
able to download the Akai piano samples.  I had been happily using ST Free
on OS9, but got the Akai samples to use with EXSP AU on my laptop.

However, I'm not all that thrilled and wonder if I am perhaps doing
something wrong.  When I play normally the sound is beautiful, but when I go
past a certain velocity, the samples sound so harsh that they seem to be
coming from a different instrument, completely destroying any sonic
continuity across the dynamic range.

Is anyone else having this problem?  Is there some tweaking I can do to
remedy this?  I've never created an instrument from samples, but it almost
seems as if I'm missing a couple of steps of timbre changes across the
dynamic range.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Gregory 

> At 03:36 PM 8/4/03 +0000, you wrote:
>> --- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "ewald_kegel"
>> <ekegel@c...> wrote:
>>> I guess most members on this list would agree that the best
>> free,
>>> available grand piano is the one you may download from the
>> AKAI FTP-
>>> site.
>>> 
>>> You can read on my site for further instructions
>>> (<http://www.cone.nl/test/exs.htm)>http://www.cone.nl/test/exs.htm)
>> 
>> I have never been able to download those samples.  I tried
>> repeatedly many months ago, and again after reading this
>> posting, but have always gotten a connection error.  It sounds
>> like others are having no problem getting to the Akai FTP site.
>> Am I doing something wrong? * * * * * * * *

> However, I'm not all that thrilled and wonder if I am perhaps doing
> something wrong.  When I play normally the sound is beautiful, but when I go
> past a certain velocity, the samples sound so harsh that they seem to be
> coming from a different instrument, completely destroying any sonic
> continuity across the dynamic range.


I had to remap a couple of samples because they seemed to be damaged.
Have your editor open when you strike the note (at the right velocity), and
take a look at that particular sample. It's probably short and mangled.

=====
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and sound comes out the other end and 
disrupts the cosmos."
Roswell Rudd

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Hello,

I am looking for good free piano sample for exsp24. Could you give me
the address of this akai FTP site, I don't find it

Can you confirm that importing sound font 2 (sf2) doesn't work in
exsp24 for mac os x? Or is there an update where it's corrected.

Thank you.

> I have never been able to download those samples.  I tried 
> repeatedly many months ago, and again after reading this 
> posting, but have always gotten a connection error.  It sounds 
> like others are having no problem getting to the Akai FTP site.  
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregory

On a fine day, 25-09-2003, gelipe18 wrote:

>I am looking for good free piano sample for exsp24. Could you give me
>the address of this akai FTP site, I don't find it

ftp://ftp.akaipro.co.jp/downloads/sound_libraries/S5000-S6000/

It seems though that nowadays you need a login/password to get in -- 
or at least that what I often hear from people trying to access the 
site.  If you manage to get through, the EXS-conversions of the 
instruments can be found a.o. in the Logic section of my website.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/

that pretty much says it all.

i havent touched logic/exs24 for a while (more than a year, under os 9).

now i'm going back to music, and wonder it would be a good idea to change my
Ti550 768ram to a new alu 1ghz strictly for logic and exs24 tasks? or should
i wait till end of next year (as Jobs just said) for the G5 powerbooks?

what would you do? any Ti1ghz user can comment on his performance?

thanks in advance,
jindrich.

What about this one http://exce.ath.cx/~route909/news.html , does EXSP do Giga otherwise nevermind. 

Henrik Krogh
henrikkrogh@...


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