I have just downloaded the Logic 5.5 update for OSX and everything is fine except that I can't get the EXSP24 working. I know that VSTs don't work in OSX (I think?) but I have been told that the EXSP24 isn't a true VST? Does this mean that I can use it with OSX? I have tried to install it but it just keeps automatically starting OS9 up......

Any ideas, or am I just being really stupid?

Thanks,

J

EXS24 is not a VST, it's part of Logic. BUT!

But you have to pay to use it and authorize it. I'd look along that track

The EXSP24 is a VST-plugin to be used with any VST-compatible software (NOT Logic under OS X - if they will make an Audio Unit version of it, or if you can find a VST - > AU converter, it would work. Emagic says they have had plans to make it AU, but we´re still waiting...)

The EXS24 is not VST. It´ s a sampler built in Logic and requires that you buy it and they give you the authorization code. It works under OS X just like Logic 5.5.

EXS24 is a sampler and costs more than EXSP24, which is a sample player.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for sorting that out, looks like I'm going to start spending money again : (

There is an upgrade path from EXSP24 to EXS24. I don´t know how much is it, I reckon some 100-200€ or more.
There are also other sample players/scaled down versions of samplers like the Native Instruments Kompakt, but I have no experience of that.

The word is that AU versions will be coming, when? who knows.

Email your Emagic distributer, they send you a 12 week temporary code for the EXS24mkII, and EVP88.

Hopefully the AUs will arrive before 12 weeks.

Are you saying that EXSP24 owners get a free 12 weeks code for the EXS24?! That would be great.
Hopefully they will eventually make the AU versions

YES! check out the forums at
http://www.osxaudio.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exs-users

I had most of my sample collection in VSamp, and I was using it in OS9 with Cubase5.
Its available in OSX as a VSTi & AU.

I picked up the Big Box last September so I didn't have time to become dependent on the EXSP before the OSX version came out. I just continued to work in OSX using VSamp since it was already paid for.

Hopefully this means we will see AU version within the 12 weeks.

Nuksu the EXS24 doesn't sample, it can import more sample formats, and it supports higher sample rates.

The EXS editor is built into Logic, I had started to convert my hardware sampler, collection to .exs format.