Ben Kennedy wrote:
Actually, it would be most useful to know something about the .exs files (in the "Sampler Instruments" folder beside "Sampler Files") since presumably that's how it maps the instrument names to their sounds. From what I gather, exs is a format used by Logic Audio and stuff, but some googling around has revealed no further details insofar as file format or API for parsing.
I also tried to find something (free) that would open .exs files in OS-x, hoping I could figure out what some of the samples are -- but no luck, so far. I have been picking away at assembling a GB Percussion Kit (which GB doesn't seem to use as a discrete unit, but the user interface to their Rock, Dance, etc. kits seem to map into GB's Percussion Kit to add extra sounds (e.g. if you've loaded the Dance Kit or the Techno Kit in GB, both will get you the same Vibraslap sample that's sitting in the Percussion Kit folder). Still, if DB gets the ability to load multiple kits in the future, one would just load one's preferred standard drum dbkit set and then could load something like the GB Percussion Kit dbkit as well. But, yes, though I'm having a pretty smooth time with the kit interface (I sometimes wish I could jump/select fields more easily with the tab key), my main difficulty is figuring out what the hell Apple's Percussion Kit samples are samples _of_ :) Many are obvious, but not all. I think the things identified with the string GOGN must be agogo bells, though the things identified as BARRE still mystify me (some kind of frame drum?). The GB Percussion Kit does indeed only seem to have pretty basic hits -- nothing like the range of sounds available on the Reverend Rat's/Carl's Djembe kit -- but hey, it's a start. Hell of a lot easier to program DB than GB :) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/