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Disk Mode

Macros

13-47

There are a couple of things to notice here. The ﬁrst is a new choice in the bank list: speciﬁed.

“Load this macro as speciﬁed” means load all the ﬁles in the macro following the exact

instructions for the bank and load mode for each ﬁle. In our example, all the ﬁles were speciﬁed

to be loaded into the 200s bank using Fill mode. If this is acceptable at the time you want to load

the macro, you can just press OK. Otherwise, you can override the bank and mode settings for

the entire macro by choosing a different bank and mode before pressing OK (this is called

rebanking the macro).

The other thing noticeable about the above display is that the Macro and Insert buttons are still

available, because the Macro mode is still Record. This means that when you load the macro, it

gets added to the RAM Macro table. But it’s not the ﬁlename (SYNTH.MAC) that gets added, as

is the case with .K26 ﬁles. Instead, every macro entry in the ﬁle’s Macro table gets loaded into the

RAM Macro table. This is a convenient way to edit a macro ﬁle or combine elements of several

macro ﬁles into one macro. See Editing Macros on page 13-53.

In our example, since we’re in Macro Record mode, pressing Macro would add the macro ﬁle’s

entries into the RAM Macro table. Pressing OK would add the macro ﬁle’s entries into the RAM

Macro table, and would load the corresponding ﬁles into RAM. Since we added the ﬁles listed in

the macro to the RAM Macro table when we recorded the macro, the RAM Macro table now

includes a duplicate set of entries.

Whatever method of loading you choose (that is, speciﬁed in the macro or overriding the

macro), the K2661 locates each ﬁle in the macro in the exact order in which the entries are listed.

If the ﬁles are on different disks in your disk system, you can observe your various disks as

they’re selected in turn and ﬁles are loaded from them.

If the K2661 cannot locate one of the ﬁles, you’ll see a “Not Found” error message. If a disk

cannot be accessed (for example, if the SCSI ID stored with the macro entries in this example is

no longer the current SCSI ID of the disk), you will see the message “Problem mounting disk,”

to which you must press OK. If Conﬁrm is set to On on the Master-mode page, loading will stop

on the ﬁrst error message, giving you a chance to cancel the operation or keep going. If you

answer Yes at this point, the operation will continue, even if the K2661 encounters subsequent

errors. If you run into a lot of errors due to loading an out-of-date macro ﬁle, the macro process

can be discontinued using a special procedure described later in the section called Aborting a

Macro Load. (page 13-57).

When the macro is done loading, you’ll see this display:

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Macro|SYNTH.MAC|completed...||||||||||||

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The K2661 returns to the Disk-mode page. You should now be able to go to the Save dialog, or

Program mode, and verify that all of the objects from the ﬁles of the macro are now in the

K2661’s memory.

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