EXSP24 - How to create multiple outputs

Question

When using the EXSP24 to play drum samples, is it possible to send different drums to different channels; eg bass drum to one channel, snare to one channel, etc?
I would like to be able to do this in order to compress drums separately and add low shelf filter to the bass drum only etc.
I have tried setting up different channel strips for the various drums but this means having the EXSP24 open on each of these tracks, and makes it hard to "play in" drum parts on the keyboard.
Any suggestions?
Bern

Answer 1

You would have to use an EXS instrument that has been assigned to multichannel outputs. I don't know if any of LE7's drum sets are; I'm still using Logic Audio 6. But LA6 includes the EXS Instrument Editor, which allows you to modify existing instruments to make them multichannel; unfortunately, the Editor has been left out of LE7, as I've found out. The Editor is now only included in Pro.
However, assuming you do have a multichannel drum set, you would select Multichannel (not Mono or Stereo) from the input menu of the Audio Instrument track and select the EXSP24 from there, and load the drumset.
To access the multiple outputs, you use Aux tracks. You can create more Aux objects in the Environment if you need them. Once the multichannel EXSP24 has been assigned to an Audio Instrument track, the Aux tracks' inputs will either default to the EXSP24's multiple outputs, or have the outputs selectable in their input menus. The Auxes start with output 3; the main 1-2 outputs of the EXSP24 always go through the output of the Instrument track itself.
Unless you know beforehand how the outputs are assigned, you'll have to play the set a bit to see which Aux track receives which drum(s).
For example, you could have kick in the main out, snare in Aux 1 (EXSP out 3-4), toms in Aux 2 (EXSP out 5-6), and cymbals in Aux 3 (EXSP out 7-8). This is using stereo Auxes. In the EXS Instrument Editor, sample zones are assignable only to stereo pairs of outputs, not single outputs.
For even more isolation (each drum to its own output), you'd have to set up the EXS instrument so that each drum is panned hard left or hard right in the pair. Then you create a mono Aux object for each drum; the input menu will then select a single EXSP output.
I think it's a huge omission (and hindrance to the user) for Apple to leave out the Editor. Not only could you make these changes to your EXS instruments, but you could create new ones from sample CDs - though that's a long process.
Redmatica's Keymap appears to be a more advanced and easier-to-use alternative to the Editor, but it's not available yet. http://www.redmatica.com/Site/Pages/KM.php