Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual page 335

Disk Mode
Saving Files
The Macro soft button will be present only if macro recording is turned on. (See page 13-43 for
more information on macros.)
You can save an entire bank of objects, or by pressing the Object soft button, select individual
objects to be saved. If you choose to save using the bank method, all RAM objects within that
bank will be saved. (You cannot save ROM objects. If you wish to save a ROM object, such as a
program, you must Þrst save it internally as a RAM program.) If any objects within the selected
bank have dependent RAM objects that exist in a different bank, you will be asked if you want
to save dependent objects. See page 13-29 for more on saving dependent objects.
Use one of the data-entry methods to select a bank to be saved. If you press the Cancel soft
button, youÕll return to the Disk-mode page. After youÕve selected the bank, press OK. The
following page will appear:
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You can now name the Þle according to the naming procedures outlined in Chapter 5. You can
enter up to eight characters. When youÕve entered a name, press OK to save the Þle as shown in
the display, or press Cancel to return to the Þle dialog. When the Þle is saved, the K2600 adds an
extension (.K26) to the Þlename. This enables the K2600 to recognize it as a Kurzweil Þle when it
examines the diskÕs directory.
Saving Master and Everything Files
Among your choices in the Bank dialog are Master Þles and Everything Þles. Master Þles consist
primarily of the items on the Master-mode page and the three MIDI-mode pages. They also
include information like marked pages, view settings, and MIDI channel and program
assignment. In fact, saving Master Þles (or dumping them via SysEx) is a good way to conÞgure
your K2600 (or another K2600) to your performance or sequencing needs. For example, you
might save different Master Þles with every sequence you create using an external sequencer.
Then, when you load the Master Þle, you would have all the correct programs assigned to the
appropriate MIDI channels.
Everything Þles consist of the Master Þle parameters and every other RAM object. Saving an
Everything Þle will literally save everything in RAM, including samples, into a single Þle. These
can be quite large, so if you donÕt have a hard disk, be sure to have a few preformatted ßoppy
disks handy.
Split Files
When youÕre saving memory banks, itÕs not uncommon to create Þles larger than 720K or even
1.4MÑespecially when youÕre saving RAM samples. If youÕre saving to ßoppy disks, the K2600
will create split Þles stored on multiple disks. A little advance preparation is necessary for this.
If the K2600 Þlls a ßoppy disk before it Þnishes saving a Þle, it will prompt you to insert a
second disk in the ßoppy drive. This disk must be preformatted; the K2600 will not format disks
in the middle of a save operation. When the second disk is inserted, the K2600 will continue to
save. This process will be repeated until the entire Þle is saved. The K2600 marks these disks
internally with a number that indicates the sequence in which they were saved.
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