Emu Emulator X Preferences

Type
Determines the Emulator X type you want to convert to. The big difference is between 1.0 and the 1.5/2.0, as the newer ones support keyswitching and control switching.
Default: 1.0

Write enclosing .exb named folder
Emulator X, when it saves a Bank, writes a folder with the BankName.exb, then writes the actual Bank file BankName.exb in that folder, along with a folder called SamplePool which contains all the samples. Translator only writes this enclosing folder when this is checked. Sometimes this is superfluous, sometimes not. Often you want to "protect" the SamplePool folders for their own Bank files.
Default: Unchecked

EmuX 32-bit Export
Emulator X is one of those rare formats that supports 32-bit samples. In fact, it only supports 16-bit and 32-bit, NOT 24-bit. Many external samplers support 32-bit, but you may not exactly want that because of editing issues and compatibility. This gives you the option of keeping them or dithering them into something else. (Note: on samplers that only support 16-bit, this has no effect.)
Default: Keep as 32-bit

Ignore Key and Vel Fades
Emu programs Fades within the KeyRange and Velocity parameters. Sometimes in a translation you do not want these to be considered, for polyphony issues, mainly. Checking these causes Translator to ignore the Fade values in both the KeyRange and Velocity areas.
Default: Unchecked

Do not create Multisamples
An Emulator X Preset contains Voices, and those Voices can contain more than one Zone, and they may overlap. Those Zones use the Voice parameters. If this option is checked, any conversion into Emulator X will write one Zone only for each Voice.
Default: Unchecked

Write exported filenames with Bank and Program Numbers
Every Emulator X Preset has a MIDI Bank number and Program Number on it. This option makes Translator, when able to, to write those numbers into the filename; e.g. "002_024 Brass" means the 3rd Bank and Program Number 24 for a Preset called Brass.
Default: Unchecked

Effect Type - Wet/Dry - Global Effects Selection - Main or Preset
Determines the default effect type that goes into all newly-created Presets, the Wet/Dry balance it has, if it takes the value or uses the Global Effects option (in Options-Effects), and if it sets it as the Main effect or individually among the Presets.

Emu Options

Write ... files
This dictates what type of Emu files you will translate into. For example, if you are translating an Akai Program and dropping it onto a Emu drive, your action does not imply what type of Emu file you want written, since Emu disks are the same for every Emu file format. Translator will translate the Akai Program into whatever you have selected.
Default: Write EOS files

Keep Emu file as is when no translation is required
Checking this insures that no cross-Emu translations will take place if it is not necessary. Suppose you want to take an EOS file off an Emu disk and write it as an .eos file on your DOS drive. If this is checked, and if the Write...files parameter is set to something other than EOS, such as E3, Translator will not translate it and simply write it as the normal EOS file.
Default: checked

Immediate Sample Read
Pre-EOS Emu formats do not list off the sample names in the Bank or Preset areas. What this means is that if you are using the Translator interface, and you are selecting a Bank/Preset to see the sample names, especially off a CD-ROM and its a large file - this can take a significant period of time, since Translator has to go all over the disk and grab simply the sample names

The default behavior is not checked no what comes up is something like {Sample 23} to reference the sample. If you click on this - THEN Translator will go and get the sample name. However, if this is checked, Translator takes the time at the beginning to go out and get all the names.
Default: unchecked

Ignore Key And Vel Fades
Emu programs Fades within the KeyRange and Velocity parameters. Sometimes in a translation you do not want these to be considered, for polyphony issues, mainly. Checking these causes Translator to ignore the Fade values in both the KeyRange and Velocity areas.
Default: unchecked

Use EOS FAT file type extensions (.e4b, .e3b, .e3x)
When converting into Emu DOS counterpart files, these type of files are used, instead of the Translator-derived .eos and .esi (which preserve the real Bank name).
Default: unchecked

Use EOS FAT number/naming scheme (e.g. B.023-etc.)
The EOS 4.7 uses a numbering scheme to preserve it's system of Bank numbers. This option uses it when you are converting into EOS FAT style files.
Default: unchecked

CheckSum
Older Emu's, and Windows operating systems, tend to render disks unusable because they miswrite or overwrite the disk "checksum", which insures the integrity of the boot sector. This option gives you different methods of fixing it if there is a problem.
Default: Warn if checksum needs repairing

Fix Files
If you have lot's of .eos files, or .esi files, you can convert them to the new EOS FAT format automatically using this option.
Default: unchecked