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Chapter 29 EXS24 mkII 559
The Velocity Curve parameter determines the EXS24’s responsiveness to velocity values
received from your MIDI keyboard. Negative values increase the response to soft key
strikes, and positive values decrease it.
The Search Samples On parameter 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 to find and load Sampler Instruments and files.
The following two preferences are particularly useful when used in conjunction with
the function discussed in the “Load Multiple Samples” section, from page 561 onwards.
Read Root Key From:
• 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
When loading an audio file into a zone this option is used for the analysis of a root key
in the file name. Possible options in the pull-down menu are “Auto”, or numerical values
from 1 to 30.
• Auto is the recommended value. It provides a smart analysis of numbers and keys in
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”.