Disk Mode Enhancements in Version 3
Disk Mode Functions
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When you enter this dialog, you will be in whatever directory was displayed as the default.
From here you can go into other directories by using the soft buttons Root, Parent, and Open.
Notice that there is no Select button. This is because the purpose of this dialog is to choose a
single directory as opposed to selecting multiple files. However, the Root, Parent, and Open
buttons function exactly as described above (for the file list dialog). The Sel parameter (on the
top line) is useful as an indication of the number of entries in the directory you are looking at.
If you are scrolled to a directory entry, there is one additional soft button displayed: SetDir.
Notice the Current button moves over one button to the left:
Dir:\||||||||||||Sel:0/23||||Index:|||8|
|||||||||||||||||N123AB|||.KRZ|||||42K||
|||||||||||||||||OCEANS|||.KRZ|||3456K||
Select|directory:STRINGS||||||(dir)|||||
|||||||||||||||||T1|||||||||||(dir)|||||
|||||||||||||||||UNDULATE|.KRZ|||||.5K||
|Total:21034K||||ZORK|||||.KRZ|||||.5K||
|Root||Parent|Open||Current|SetDir|Exit|
There are two ways that you can select a directory in this dialog.
Press Current. This selects the directory you are currently in (whose file list you are viewing), as
specified in the Dir parameter on the top line of the display. For instance if you wished to select
the directory STRINGS using the Current button, you would first press Open to display the
contents of that directory, and then press Current. If you instead wanted to choose the root
directory, you would simply press Current, since that is the directory you are viewing (notice
the
Dir: \ at the top).
Press SetDir. This selects the directory you are scrolled to, such as STRINGS in the display
above. This method is often quicker and more convenient than pressing Open followed by
Current, which does the same thing. The SetDir soft button is present in the display only when
the scrollbar highlights a directory entry.
Disk Mode Functions
Now that you are familiar with the basics of creating directories and moving around in the
Version 3 file system, it is time to discuss some of the new features provided in the disk
functions themselves.
Loading Individual Objects
In previous versions of software, an entire file had to be loaded into the K2000 at one time, as a
bank. Since files can contain over 3000 objects, it can often be useful to load only a subset of the
information contained in a K2000 file. Sometimes, this capability is necessary even to be able to
load certain files, if the size of the file's samples or data is greater than the K2000's internal RAM
size (in case you haven't gotten those extra SIMMs or the PRAM option yet).
In Version 3 it is now possible to select individual objects or groups of objects (samples,
programs, keymaps, effects, songs) for loading from within a single K2000 file.
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