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 Sample Cd's And Me...a Logic Scenario, help! |
 Thu 26 Dec 2002, 00:37
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Jeff,
you will only need to go into OS 9 if you want to convert AKAI samples using EXS24's built-in sample format converter (AKAI conversion is not currently supported in OS X). The program cdxtract and also Translator (a similar program) are currently only OS 9 compatible. These programs allow you to translate multiple sample formats into other formats (including into EXS). So for example you can translate Roland library to EXS or AKAI to Halion. You don't really need to purchase these programs if you are only translating Gigasampler or AKAI formats, however they can often do better translations than the built-in EXS converter. Generally samples available in Gigasampler library will be better than AKAI library. The reason being is that library created for AKAI has a patch limit of 32MB due to the RAM limitations of many old AKAI samplers. Gigasampler being computer based (more RAM) and also having the ability to "stream" samples means that library created for it is much bigger, often 100MB to 1 Gigabyte for a single patch. So for example on the AKAI you might have a piano sample where every third semitone is sampled with two velocity layers and loops are used to provide sustain. On Gigasampler format a piano may have every single note sampled with 4 velocity layers and no loops for sustain. The result is amore realistic sounding piano on gigasampler format. EXS24 can use large samples and streaming of samples like gigasampler so you can take advantage of the better quality samples available for gigasampler and EXS will translate giga format directly in OS X. EXSMkII is not available as a separate download, it is part of Logic 5.5. |
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Thu 26 Dec 2002, 03:42
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Moderator Group: Team Posts: 508 Joined: 09-Jul 02 From: Sydney - AU Member No.: 5,658 |
One more thing, sample library producers are starting to make libraries in EXS MKII format, so you won't have to worry about converting library formats.
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Thu 26 Dec 2002, 14:06
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Hi,
cdXtract is not a simple "converter" tool  you can do a lot of other stuffs with ! like assign a Controller to switch from a Prg to another, Stack Prg, Merge prg etc... it is very painfull to do it directly in the EXS24 editor ! -------------------- ZgOgOr |
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