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522 Chapter 29 EXS24 mkII
To create a new Instrument and a Zone
1 Select Instrument > New from the Editor window’s menu. A new instrument is created.
Note: In order to hear your edits, please ensure that the correct Instrument is loaded
into the EXS24 instance assigned to the currently selected track, and is selected in the
editor.
2 Go to Zone > New Zone to create a new zone. A small window will appear to the left of
the editor window.
3 Click on the empty field alongside the Audio File label. A file selection dialog box will
launch, allowing you to select a sample from the hard disk or CD ROM.
4 Select the sample. It is loaded into the Zone.
Drag and Drop Zone creation
A new zone (and a new instrument, if none is currently displayed in the editor) can also
be created by dragging a file onto one of the keys of the onscreen keyboard. The start
key, end key and root key are all set to the note that the file was dropped on. This drag
and drop functionality works for audio files from the following sources: Project
Manager, Audio Window and the Finder.
You can create multiple zones by drag and dropping multiple files from these sources.
When you do so, a dialog window will launch, asking how you would like these
multiple files to be handled. See the “Load Multiple Samples” section, on page 561 for
further information.
Note: If an audio file is dragged and dropped onto an existing zone (in the lower
section of the EXS Instrument Editor window), the file referenced by that zone is
changed to the new (dropped) file.