Kurzweil K2661 - How to Make a Macro File

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Disk Mode
Macros
Macro mode and the Macro table are remembered between power-cycles of the K2661 via the
battery-backed memory.
A macro can hold as many entries as there is space for in your K2661’s nonvolatile RAM.
How to Make a Macro File
This section will take you through creating, saving, and loading a macro file. A simple example
will be used. Afterward, you will be able to apply the example and create your own macro files.
The first step in making a macro file is to turn on Macro Record mode (from the MACRO Page,
press On, if you have not already done so).
Creating the Macro
Suppose you have the following four files on your disk (on SCSI ID 5, in the directory
\ANALOG\) that contain analog-style synthesizer programs, and you would like to have one
macro file that will load them all:
Dir:\ANALOG\|||||Sel:4/4|||||Index:|||1|
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||||File|to|load:MULTIVOX|.K26*||||98K||
|||||||||||||||||NOISE||||.K26*||||36K||
|||||||||||||||||RESONANT|.K26*|||109K||
|Total:664K||||||SYNAPSE||.K26*|||421K||
Select||Root||Parent||Open|||OK|||Cancel
Using multiple selection, you can select all four files, as shown (you can also open each file and
select one or more objects in that file; when you load the macro, only those objects get loaded).
When you press OK you will see the usual Load dialog, but with the extra soft buttons Macro
and Insert:
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||Load|this|file|as:200...299|||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||300...399|||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||400...499|||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||500...599|||||||||||
Insert||||||||||||||||Macro|||OK||Cancel
The extra soft buttons are available only in Macro Record mode. First, select the bank that you
want, as usual. Press OK means to load all of the selected files into the K2661, and add all of the
files to the Macro table. If you’re just creating a macro file, and don’t need to load any files at the
moment, press Macro, which adds the files to the Macro table, but doesn’t load them into the
K2661.
When you add files to a Macro table, they get added at the end of the Macro table by default.
Insert is for inserting file entries at any point in a Macro table. See Macro Insert on page 13-55 for
more information.