EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 08:05 AM 2/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>I hope this isn't a major stupid question...but throwing care to the
>wind...  When buying libraries for the EXS...should you buy in EXS
>format...or Giga?  Now, before you start throwing tomatoes...I have
>some reasoning behind this.
>
>The Giga sample libraries are designed with many more capabilities than
>the EXS has at this time...I would suppose that the EXS libraries are
>designed to accommodate what the EXS can do now.  If and when
>advancements occur in the EXS...you could go back and re-convert your
>Giga library and theoretically implement more features...but your EXS
>library would require programming...am I right here?

I would get assurances from the library-maker that the EXS version has 
programming expressly designed for the EXS, or that if it wasn't, that the 
EXS version was fully checked out to play nearly as well as the Giga (and 
if it was designed for Mark I or Mark II). I don't know of any library 
offhand that was natively produced on the EXS (but I know the EXS front end 
is appealing to some of them, and that some may come out).

What would be cool - if sampling packages had a "Nutrition Facts" type of 
"warning" where it would say what the native format was, and what "level" 
the conversion formats were at. Such a thing never could be compulsory, but 
it could be voluntarily adhered to, if someone issued a standard.

To directly answer your question, I would get the EXS versions, as that 
they likely wouldn't exist if they weren't checked out - but then nothing 
surprises me these days.

(Just as a side note, what should be happening is that libraries should be 
coming out in multi-format designs, rather than paying extra for each 
format. Check out Sonic Reality www.sonicreality.com , their new and soon 
old libraries are coming out in a multi-format way - get one package (with 
2-3 CD's) and you get all the formats.)

Garth Hjelte
Sampler User