EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Maarten wrote:
>I was pretty amazed to. But with playing some EXS-instruments form 
>this cd my CPU indicator is going above 60% and I can here nasty 
>glitsches in the sound. Do you have the same? (My PC: PIII 800, CUSL2-
>c 512 MB, HDSP Hammerfall Digiface card at 6 ms)

Do you use the 32 bit sample storage option for EXS24? 

If you open the EXS intstrument editor and then look in the edit menu you
will see "preferences" and that's where this setting is made. If you have
plenty of RAM (as you do) then this option consumes more RAM but saves on
CPU as otherwise Logic has to convert all samples stored in RAM in 16 bit
or 24 bit linear format to 32 bit float format on the fly.  On a big drum
kit like the Stereo Drums this can make a huge difference to the amount of
CPU resources consumed.

Of course the other things you can do are A) minimize the number of voices
for the instruments you are using and B) turn off filters which gobble CPU
cycles.

Regards,
Murray