EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I just received my CD and I must say I'm amazed. Absolute professional
quality, nice useful sounds.
Plus there are some demo songs nicely demonstrating how to alter certain
sounds dynamically.
IMO pretty much worth the price, especially considering the fact that  the
EXS is extremely CPU-friendly. If I would create similar sounds using any
softsynth(s) I would certainly run out of horsepower pretty soon.

Regards,
Sascha

--- In exs-users@y..., "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@s...> wrote:
> I just received my CD and I must say I'm amazed. Absolute 
professional
> quality, nice useful sounds.
> Plus there are some demo songs nicely demonstrating how to alter 
certain
> sounds dynamically.
> IMO pretty much worth the price, especially considering the fact 
that  the
> EXS is extremely CPU-friendly. If I would create similar sounds 
using any
> softsynth(s) I would certainly run out of horsepower pretty soon.
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha

Hello Sascha,

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)

Regards,

Maarten

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

--- In exs-users@y..., Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> wrote:
> 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? 
> 
Hi Murray,

No, I didn't use it. I enabled it now, but no real improvement is 
noticable. Igor wrote it's the filter. It seems the be so. When I 
switch it of the CPU indicator goes down by 30 to 40 %. On some 
instruments it's no problem switching it of. Other completly depends 
on the filtering. 

Regards,

Maarten