The Macro Table - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Disk Mode
Macros
Whenever Macro Record mode is enabled, you will see the indicator (Macro on) near the top left
of the display on the Disk-mode page:
DiskMode||||Samples:10022K||Memory:|42K|
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CurrentDisk:Floppy||||||||Startup:Off|||
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<more|||Load|||Save||Macro||Delete|more>

The Macro Table

When Macro Record mode is enabled after being in the Macro Off state, a new object called a
Macro table gets created in the K2600Õs memory. In the object list for the Save dialog, the Macro
table would appear as:
Table|||35|Macro|||||||||||||||||||||14|
A Macro table can be deleted from memory only by pressing the Off soft button, or by
performing a hard reset of the K2600. Pressing the Off button will display the following
question:
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Pressing Yes will delete the Macro table from memory, and then will return to the Disk-mode
page. The Macro mode is set to Off, and the (Macro on) indicator is no longer displayed on the
Disk-mode page.
Pressing No will return to the MACRO page with no action taken. The ÒReset macro?Ó question
is displayed to allow you to change your mind about deleting the Macro table, in case you have
accidentally pressed the Off button.
When the Macro table is Þrst created it takes up a minimal size (14 bytes) in your nonvolatile
RAM. With each new entry that is added, the Macro table will increase in size by approximately
40 to 100 bytes (or possibly more if the entry speciÞes an individual object list). In Macro Pause
mode, the Macro table remains in memory but does not change size since Þle operations are not
recorded. This is useful if you need to load Þles into the K2600 but you donÕt want them to be
entered into the Macro table.
In Macro Record mode, the Macro table gets progressively larger with every Þle-loading
operation. Consequently we recommend that you leave the Macro mode set to Off unless you
are recording and saving macros. This will prevent the Macro table from taking up RAM.
On the other hand, if you have lots of RAM (hereÕs another plug for the P/RAM option) you
may wish to leave Macro Record mode enabled all the time. This can be useful for viewing a
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