Will it finally be possible to use multiple EXS24's in a drum map and simply select the drum map on a track in the Arrange window? (I mean for real this time... not only in Play mode, or whatever the exact limitation was before that made it essentially useless for me.) I want to be able to quickly dial in drum kits using a drum map, using multiple EXS instruments that each comprise collections of snares, kicks, toms and cymbals. Thanks, David

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, "Noble Gowing" <dangcookie@c...> wrote: > Will it finally be possible to use multiple EXS24's in a drum map > Snip We now have Ultrabeat, a dedicated drum-sampler/machine /synthesizer/sequencer I doubt very much that the functionality that you're looking for will be in LP7. It's kinda outdated now, Ultrabeat will be far more flexible for beat creation and manipulation than any general purpose sampler could ever be.

> > Will it finally be possible to use multiple EXS24's in a drum > > map > We now have Ultrabeat, a dedicated drum-sampler/machine > /synthesizer/sequencer > I doubt very much that the functionality that you're looking for > will be in LP7. It's kinda outdated now, Ultrabeat will be far > more flexible for beat creation and manipulation than any general > purpose sampler could ever be. I don't think you're right on that one, at least for the way I create beats, which is to simply play the drum kit all at once on my keyboard, just like playing a real kit... kick, snare, cymbals, toms... all at the same time. I don't see how a dedicated drum machine will improve my work flow in any way whatsoever. I would never want to go back to entering beats like I used to in my old drum machine -- say kick and snare first, then hi-hats, then whatever. I consider that to be a very unfluid approach. But if the new Logic drum machine does somehow add great functionality to people who play drum kits "live", then perhaps that will be interesting to see. I'm not holding my breath. What I've been waiting for forever is to not have to construct drum kits and save each individual kit as an instrument. I have oodles and oodles of snares, grouped and saved by category as individual EXS instruments. I've got a collections of dry snares, of wet snares, of trash can snares, of rap snares, of electronic snares. The same goes for kicks... dry kicks, floppy kicks, rap kicks, etc.. Will Logic 7 allow me to put multiple instances of EXS instruments (e.g., one for a dry snare collection, one for a floppy kick collection, one for a Clearmountain hi-hat collection, one for my own crash and ride collection, one for my dry tom collection) into an environment where I route through a drum map to these separate EXS instrument collections so that C2 goes to the kick instrument, D2 to the snare instrument, F#, G# and A# to the hi-hat instrument, etc.. Then I could simply assign the drum map to an Arrange track and play the assembled kit. Now THAT is what I would call brilliant flexibility. Is it possible in L7? Thanks, David