EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Hollow Sun wrote:
> That
> investment needs protection and the 'monolith' is a good way to achieve that
> as it makes life more difficult to rip the sounds off (although I guess it's
> not impossible in the hands of a determined hacker).

You know Steve, even in the hands of someone who knows about nothing at all about hacking (that'd be me), it's still possible rather
easily. No worries, I won't spread that sort of "wisdom" - I only wanted to mention.
And in case you're asking yourself how I could know: I simply wanted to load some monolithic Kompakt-based patches into the EXS.
Finding out about how to do so took me like a 5-10 minute search on the web. But as said, I won't say what I searched for (nothing
illegal, just so much about that).

 > > Which is a shame, as it's still the most efficient playback machine.
> I wonder if Apple could somehow be persuaded to make an EXS 'player'?!

Well, there's the EXSP. But it's using the same file format as the EXS, so it's still "patch + samples".

And seriously: I allready said so, I can understand all those actions from a developer point of view - but as a user, I want my
patches to be of broad use. So, I just want them to be compatible with any of the softsamplers I own. And I also love mangling
samples myself, which is another no-no when using monolithic and proprietary formats.
Might not be as important when dealing with supposed-to-sound-realistic sets, but, for instance, I would NEVER ever buy some loop
library based on Intakt. It's just WAY too limited to please my needs.

Regards,
Sascha