EXS editor — Previous/Next Instrument

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EXS editor — Previous/Next Instrument

From LP7 reference, page 560: Previous/Next Instrument and the number fields alongside determine which MIDI event type (and data value) will be used for selection of the previous or next Instrument: Note, Poly Pressure, Control, Program, Channel Pressure, Pitch Bend.

Does this mean one can switch to another sampler instrument using midi events? Or am I missing something?

iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5), Logic 7.1.1

Posted on Mar 21, 2006 8:55 AM

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Justin C

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Mar 21, 2006 9:09 AM in response to rockbottom

Yes. Is that not what happens?

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rockbottom Author

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Mar 21, 2006 9:52 AM in response to Justin C

Now, that's funny: I posted a question lately, asking how to switch samplers on the same track and nobody could answer it... Now I realize how dumb the question was — when you read the manual closely enough.

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Justin C

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Mar 21, 2006 10:08 AM in response to rockbottom

All 3000 pages! : ^)

My manual reading for Logic is weird. I have read the manual over the years many many times. I read the V4 man like 8 times and used it as reference. I even read the 2 manuals. I still read them, looking for what's new and changed and just in general but I don't as much as I used to.

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Mar 21, 2006 10:35 AM in response to Justin C

> 3000 pages...

My two [pdf] manuals only amount to 1350 pages — so there must be two other books I haven't read yet! I'd never had enough: reading them again always shed some new light from an angle I thought I had already exhausted. Sometimes, a single sentence will suddenly open the door to a vantage point I had never considered before. And most of the time, everything should have been obvious from the beginning. All considered, Logic's manuals are not easy material...

> I don't as much as I used to.

I do, probably because I've only used logic for 3 or 4 month — I'm a former Cubase user — and had to drastically get rid of viewpoints that didn't work any longer.

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Justin C

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Mar 21, 2006 10:58 AM in response to rockbottom

You're missing some docs then. : ^)

SoundDiver is nearly 800 and there are addendums and TDM, WaveBurner, etc but I'm pretty sure 2xxx pages.

logic for 3 or 4 month — I'm a former Cubase...

Fooled me.

The manuals are not easy material. They cover so many things, mastery deserves an AAS (a 2 year college level degree).

Cheers

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Plowman

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Mar 21, 2006 1:03 PM in response to Justin C

Here's an interesting anomaly. I can use this command assigned to MIDI keys to load instruments step-wise as they are listed in a folder. But whenever I load a VSL legato instrument, both commands stop working. If I hit the plus or minus sign on the plug-in with my mouse to move "manually" to the next or previous instrument, the shortcut keys start working again. But they stop working as soon as another legato instrument is loaded.

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Justin C

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Mar 21, 2006 1:12 PM in response to Plowman

That is weird. I just use the KCs from the KC editor so I hadn't hit that one. Maybe it is something they want to go away if a workaround was never achieved-or maybe they are working on fixing it?

Is it only with the VSL lib? Or just anything leg.

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Plowman

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Mar 21, 2006 7:55 PM in response to Justin C

Hi Justin. As it turns out, it's more specifically the VSL Performance Tool settings at Legato or Repetition.

The VSL performance tool is built into EXS. As you know, it loads automatically whenever a VSL performance patch is loaded into an EXS instance.

Once the performance tool loads (and if it is set to legato or repetition), MIDI keys assigned to "previous" and "next" instrument stop working. If you go into "edit" and set the Perf Tool to "thru" (disabling it), the assigned keys work again.

(Of course, once the Perf Tool is set to thru, the legato and repetition patches will not play as intended. Perf Tool set at "alternation" seems not to get in the way.)

No problem. Just an idle curiosity. Any number of other MIDI controllers may be assigned to next and previous instrument.

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Justin C

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Mar 21, 2006 8:23 PM in response to Plowman

It's great information for people using VSL with P/N inst though.

Cheers

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