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Search Samples On Menu
Determines the location that instruments samples should be searched in. You may
either choose the drives normally used by the operating system or external SCSI,
FireWire, or USB drives, accessible directly or over a network. Drives can be selected
individually, or grouped as follows:
 Local Volumes internal storage media (hard disks and CD ROM mechanisms) attached
to or installed in the computer directly.
 External Volumes storage media accessible over a network.
 All Volumes both internal and network media are scanned for appropriate data.
Note: Selecting External or All Volumes may result in a dramatic increase in the time
required by the EXS24 mkII to find and load sampler instruments and files.
Read Root Key From Menu
Allows you to determine how the EXS24 mkII determines the root key of loaded audio
files. You can choose between the following options:
 File/filename: Initially reads information about the root key from the file itself (in the
header of the AIFF or WAVE file) when loading an audio file 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 vice versa, with the filename read first, and the header
read second.
 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
Normally, the EXS24 mkII intelligently determines the root key from the file header of
the loaded audio file. However, sometimes you may want manual control over this
parameter, if you feel that the root key is not being properly determined. For those
occasions, use the Root Key at File Name Position parameter. Possible options in the
pop-up menu are Auto, or numerical values from 1 to 30.
Auto is the recommended value. It 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.