The Logic Off Topic list

On a fine day, 07-03-2004, J wrote:

>--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Hans Hafner <hanshafner@g...> wrote:
>>  - assign key command "next instrument" to a midi note
>>  - make a sequence with that note in it
>>  - turn on cycle witha reasonable length (depending on how complex the
>>  samplecell instruments are)
>>  - hit play and watch logic convert all you instruments.
>>  Just make sure all the audio files are there.
>>  Run project manager first then the searching will be a little faster
>>  Instead of being such a cynic!
>
>Dude, that's cool advice... I'll try it out! Does it skip/iterate
>through subfolders this way??

Yes.  Just make sure that after loading the EXS in an Audio 
Instrument strip, you manually load the very 1st instrument from the 
EXS instrument list.  That way "next instrument" will start there and 
cycle through all available instruments, no matter how they're 
arranged.
Contrary to what Hans writes above, I've found that the length of the 
sequence (i.e. the time between succesive 'next instrument commands') 
isn't relevant.  If the EXS can't keep up, it will simply skip a 
command.  Last time I did this trick, I had a 1-bar sequence, and 
Logic playing at, I think, 120 bpm.
One thing to be aware of is the presence of double samples (i.e. 
identically named, etc).  If you have those, the EXS will halt when 
encountering them and ask you which of the 2 you want to use. 
Annoying if this happens in the fifth instrument, and you went to bed 
after the 1st...  Logic has been running all night, but nothing much 
has happened, since this dialog came up.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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