Kurzweil K2661 - Remote Macro Load

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Disk Mode

Macros

You will see the following question after the current ﬁle ﬁnishes loading:

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Abort|the|macro?||||||||||||||||||||||||

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It may be a good idea to practice using this method of aborting a macro ﬁle load, so that when

you accidentally load an out-of-date macro ﬁle with 25 entries all at the wrong SCSI ID, you’ll

remember how to abort the process. This same method (of holding the Plus or Minus buttons

down) is also used to abort the Backup feature and the multiple ﬁle load feature.

If you run out of object or sample RAM, you will have one opportunity to abort the macro as

explained above. However, if you continue from that point you may end up seeing the same

error message “Memory is full” for each ﬁle to be loaded. This can be a rather tedious process,

however it is still possible to abort out of this by holding down the Plus or Minus button

simultaneously while pressing Yes when you see the following question:

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Abort|this|partial|load?||||||||||||||||

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If the macro that you abort was loaded by multiple selection together with other ﬁles, you will

have to abort twice, once to get out of the current macro ﬁle load, and a second time to get out of

the multiple ﬁle load process.

If you are aborting a macro because the Disk ID is incorrectly speciﬁed (as evidenced by lots of

“Problem mounting disk” errors) you will need to hold down either the Plus or Minus button

while pressing OK to satisfy the error prompt. The display may blink while holding down the

Plus or Minus button, but as soon as you have pressed OK you will see the “Abort the macro?”

question.

Remote Macro Load

You can remotely load a macro into the K2661 from a sequencer. This can be useful, for example,

if the K2661 is inaccessible or inconveniently situated.

Once you’ve created the macro that you will be remotely loading from the sequencer, set the

sequencer to record, then dump the macro object to the sequencer using the Dump soft button

on the Master-mode Object page. Then, add the SysEx LOADMACRO (10h) command to the

sequence, following the macro object. Although some sequencers allow you to record a SysEx

command directly into a sequence, the K2661 provides a convenient shortcut, described in the

next paragraph.

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