The Options pop-up menu provides EXS24 mkII settings, preferences, memory management, sampler instrument management, and import commands.
Recall Default EXS24 Settings: Recalls a neutral setting for all parameters in the Parameter window. This provides a “clean slate” when you are adjusting the parameters of your sampler instrument.
Recall Settings from Instrument: Recalls the original parameter settings of the loaded sampler instrument. This option is useful if you’ve been overzealous with your tweaking and want to return to the original sampler instrument parameter settings.
Save Settings to Instrument: Stores the current parameter values of the Parameter window in the sampler instrument file. When the instrument is reloaded, these values are recalled.
Delete Settings from Instrument: Removes the stored settings (Parameter window values) from the sampler instrument file.
Rename Instrument: Allows you to rename the loaded instrument, which overwrites the existing instrument name.
Save Instrument as: Allows you to enter an alternative name for the loaded instrument, which preserves the original name and sampler instrument file, but creates a new sampler instrument—a copy.
Note: This is a good, safe option to use because any projects or templates that use the originally named sampler instrument work as expected.
Delete Instrument: Deletes the loaded sampler instrument.
(Recall Default EXS24 mkI Settings): Recalls the parameter settings of sampler instruments created in the older version of the EXS24—notably, the modulation paths (see EXS24 mkI modulation paths). This option is not relevant for sampler instruments created in EXS24 mkII.
Extract MIDI Region(s) from ReCycle Instrument: Extracts regions contained in a ReCycle instrument. If no ReCycle instrument is selected, this option is dimmed. See Convert ReCycle files to sampler instruments.
SoundFont Convert, DLS Convert, Giga Convert: Each of these commands opens a dialog with instructions about performing the respective conversions. See Import SoundFont2, DLS, and Gigasampler files for details.
Preferences: Opens EXS24 mkII preferences. See EXS24 mkII preferences.
Virtual Memory: Opens a configuration dialog for EXS24 mkII virtual memory functions. Virtual memory allows samples of almost unlimited length to be played back, by streaming audio directly from the hard disk in real time. The Virtual Memory dialog also enables direct access to system memory for EXS24 mkII—in systems with 5 GB of RAM or more. See EXS24 mkII memory management.