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Setting EXS24 mkII Zone Parameters
The zone parameters provide extensive control over each zone, or sample, in your sampler
instrument.
Zone Name field: Displays the zone name. New zones are automatically assigned a
consecutive number. Click a zone number to enter a name.
Audio File menu: Displays the audio file name. Move the pointer over a name to reveal
a help tag with additional information, such as format, bit depth, sample rate, and so
on. Press Command before the help tag appears, to display the full file path in the help
tag. Click the arrow to open a shortcut menu that offers the following commands:
Load Audio Sample: Opens a file selection box, allowing you to select an audio file.
Default key command: Control-F.
Open in Sample Editor: Opens the selected sample in the Logic Express Sample Editor
(or the sample editor chosen in the Open External Sample Editor preference). Default
key command: Control-W.
Reveal in Finder: Shows the full path of the loaded audio file in the Finder.
Tip: Double-click the name of a sample in the Audio File > Name column to open the
audio file in the Sample Editor. When no audio file is loaded, the audio file selector
opens.
Pitch fields: Key determines the root note of the sample—in other words, the note at
which the sample will sound at its original pitch.
Use the Coarse and Fine fields to tune the sample in semitone/cent increments.
Volume field: Adjusts the overall output level of the zone.
Pan field: Adjusts the pan position of the zone. This parameter works only when the
EXS24 mkII is used in stereo.
Scale field: Balances the level of a sample across the selected key range. A negative
value makes notes lower than the root key position louder than higher notes; positive
values have the opposite effect.
Output menu: Determines the outputs used by the zone. Choices include the main
outputs, and paired channels 3 and 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8, 9 and 10, or individual outputs
11 through 16. This allows individual zones to be routed independently to aux channel
strips (in a multi-output EXS24 mkII instance).
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