The Logic Off Topic list

On a fine day, 09-03-2004, J wrote:

>--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@k...> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>
>So are you saying it will convert the instruments even if it doesn't
>have the normal amount of time that would be required to load the
>instrument??? Why not have 5000 next instrument commands issued in a
>period of 5-10 seconds then?

No, it _does_ have to load the instruments.  But if it's busy loading 
an instrument and then receives a 'next instrument' command, it just 
doesn't abort the loading action, but first finishes it before trying 
to load the next instrument.  So what I tried to do was: make the 
interval between successive 'loads' short enough so that small 
instruments would be dealt with as quickly as possible -- no use 
having a 20 second pause if some instruments load in 2 seconds.  And 
if an instrument does take 20 seconds while the commands come in 2 
second intervals, the EXS will simply skip 9 commands, or execute 
them later.

At the end, when you hit 'stop', you'll most likely get an error 
message saying that the EXS wasn't able to process all data in time, 
but that's of no consequence of course.

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