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I see! Ill do that so! Thanks for the help guys!

oh and don't forget to get a cheap external (usb) hard drive to save your work from time to time. there's nothing worse than loosing your work of an year or so!

I run my samples for the logic sampler from drive C (logic program folder) by the way. that is not a problem because you're loading the samples to the ram unlike the hd recordings that come directly from the hard drive.

Ive looked into Halion 3 and Im unsure about which to get now! Whats the difference between buyin VSL (a virtual instrument) and buying Halion 3? Its only €350 and it says it samples 160 instruments. VSL sample 4 instruments for €350. Synthogy sample 3 pianos for €350. There must be a huge difference in quality?

Synthogy is also a sample based instrument. you buy a sampler that plays 30 GB piano sounds. and that sound makes it expensive. it's a lot of work to record single tones in different dynamics and make a multi layered sampler instrument of it. I'm sure those pianos sound great.

on the other hand if you buy the Halion you probable won't get a lot of great sounds along with it. but the Halion reads the following formats: AKAI, E-MU, Roland, Kurzweil, GIGA, Kontakt, EXS24, SF2, LM4, LM4 MkII, REX, ZeroX BeatCreator, WAV, AIF, SD II (nur Mac), ISO & Nero Disc Image.
that means you can play pretty much every sound that has ever been made for samplers on your pc. there are thousends of cd-roms with with all kinds of sounds. from orchestra to drums to noise to vintage synths to drum computers...you name it.
have a look at this.

plus: you can create your own sounds with your wave files.

I see! I have 4 or 5 sample CD`s of drum kits in WAV format from BetaMonkeyLoops. At the moment, I am arranging these into loops in Fruity Loops. If I get Halion, can I load all my drum samples into Halion, then record a drum track with my midi keyboard?

Can I assign 4 or 5 snares to one keyboard key so that each time I press the key it will randomly select a different snare each time so the track sounds realistic?