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• “Read root key from” pop-up menu: Sets the method used by the EXS24 mkII to determine
the root key of loaded audio files. You can choose from the following:
• File/filename: Initially reads information about the root key from the audio file itself
(in the header of the AIFF or WAVE file) when loading it into a zone. If no information
of this type exists in the file header, a smart analysis of the filename may detect a
root key. If this second method doesn’t provide any useful results, C3 will be used
as the default root key in the zone.
• Filename/file: As above, but the filename is read before the header.
• Filename only: Reads from the filename only. If no root key information exists, C3 will
automatically be assigned to the zone as the root key.
• File only: Reads from the file header only. If no root key information exists, C3 will
automatically be assigned to the zone as the root key.
• “Root Key at File Name Position” pop-up menu: Normally, the EXS24 mkII intelligently
determines the root key from the file header of the loaded audio file. On occasion, you
may want manual control over this parameter, if you feel that the root key is not being
properly determined.
• Auto: Provides a smart analysis of numbers and keys from the file name. A number
in the file name can be recognized, regardless of its format—60 or 060 are both valid.
Other valid numbers can range between 21 and 127. Numerical values outside of
these are generally just version numbers. A key number is also a valid possibility for
this use—C3, C 3, C_3, A-1, A-1 or #C3, C#3, for example. The possible range is C-2
up to G8.
• Numeric value: There may be cases where a sound designer has used multiple
numbers in a filename, which is common with loops, with one value being used to
indicate tempo—“loop60-100.wav,” for example. In this situation, it isn’t clear which,
if either, of the numbers indicates a root key or something else: 60 or 100 could
indicate the file number in a collection, tempo, root key, and so on. You can set a
value of 8 to read the root key at position (letter/character) eight of the
filename—namely, the 100 (E6). Alternatively, setting a value of 5 will select the 60
(C3) as the root key position.
• Previous Instrument and Next Instrument: Determine which MIDI event type and data
value will be used for selection of the previous or next instrument.
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