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Important: These commands are unique to the EXS24 mkII and are separate from the
global Previous/Next Plug-In Setting or EXS Instrument commands. Therefore, you
should make sure that you do not assign the same MIDI event for both. If you do this,
both commands will execute, which may result in unexpected behavior.
Choose the desired MIDI event type in the Previous Instrument and Next Instrument
pop-up menus. Choices include: Note, Poly Pressure, Control Change, Program
Change, Channel Pressure, and Pitch Bend. In the field next to each pop-up menu,
you can enter either the note number or the value of the first data byte. When Control
Change is chosen, the number field determines the controller number.
“Giga convert includes release trigger” checkbox: Determines whether or not the release
trigger function of the Gigasampler format will be performed by the EXS24 mkII.
“Ignore release velocity checkbox: Also refers to the release trigger function of the
Gigasampler format, and it should always be selected for this purpose. Regardless of
whether or not your keyboard is able to send release velocity, you would want your
samples played by the release trigger function to be louder or softer than the original
sample, or at the same volume, regardless of the initial velocity. When playing with
release trigger, you would want the release velocity value to have the same value as
the initial velocity value. To accomplish this, you can switch off release velocity.
“Keep common samples in memory when switching projects” checkbox: Determines
whether or not the samples commonly used (shared) by two open project files are
reloaded when you switch between projects.
Configuring EXS24 mkII Virtual Memory
Multigigabyte sample libraries are commonplace these days, delivering incredibly detailed
and accurate instrument sounds. In many cases, these sample libraries are too large to
fit into your computers random-access memory (RAM).
In order to use these huge sampler instruments, the EXS24 mkII can use a portion of your
hard drive as virtual memory. When you turn on the EXS24 mkII’s virtual memory, only
the initial attacks of audio samples are loaded into the computers RAM; the rest of the
sample is streamed in real time from the hard drive.
For systems with 5 GB or more of RAM, the virtual memory functions allow the EXS24 mkII
to address its own memory. See Advanced EXS24 mkII RAM Management.
You can configure the EXS24 mkII’s virtual memory feature in the Virtual Memory window.
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