On 23/08/2005, at 10:11 AM, Hollow Sun wrote: >> I'm not sure specifically what you're referring to here. Muting hi >> hats? If it is then it could not be more simple. Just mute the track >> or >> instrument playing the hats. > My apologies Paul.. maybe I was mistaking this with someone else's in > the > vast breadth of other posts on the subject. As it happens, I can't > find your > particular post. But..... Mine was the post rather late in the thread, offering the idea of loading multiple EXS's across multiple instruments all with the same kit loaded. The ram footprint is no bigger than having just one loaded and it uses minimal more CPU cycles. This offers huge advantages for drum programming in general and gets around almost all the criticisms levelled at the exs for drums - including being able to simply mute the hats. > 39 posts over an 11-day period all offering various solutions to what > would > be a simple answer on the equivalent Akai mailing list - "Assign the > various > hi-hat samples to the same mute group - they will play polyphonically > as > expected but will be mutually exclusive with one cutting the other > off". > That's what the original poster wanted. > > I have no axe to grind here - ss I mentioned, I am just astonished > that such > a fundamental facility that has been in place elsewhere in hardware > samplers > since 1990 is still absent 15 years later in what is purported to be > (and > marketed as) a 'cutting edge' software product. Even if you didn't want to use multiple EXS's, don't all of you put each drum sound (midi note) onto separate tracks (with the same instrument assigned) in arrange? If you did it would just be a matter of muting the midi track with the hats on them. Old Akai's be dammed! Who want's to fuss with setting up a mute group on a 2 line LCD? > I happen to think that this is disgraceful and causes me to wonder > what the > paper spec for this product was - too look good in press releases and > ads to > sell the product or to be genuinely useful and versatile for users. The > former by the looks of it... lots of bells and whistles but the basics > overlooked! This was one of the points of my last lengthy post that I asked if you read. I would of died of outrage many many times by now if I worried too much about the amount of BS and just plain misinformation I've seen in the arena of electronic instrument design over the last 25 years. > In this respect, I think that Sascha is dead on the nail - dedicated > drum > samplers seem to have the edge on the 'generic' sampler for such > functions. > > Which is fine - horses for courses. Use the best tool suited to the > task in > hand. I agree with you that it's horses for courses. Personally I don't feel the need to buy another interface - in this case a drum sampler - to achieve my desired level of functionality. If there was a kit that I loved the sound of that used it's own interface - now that's what has me get out my wallet. YMMV Kind regards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com