Unspeciþed Disk Id; The Library Disk - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Disk Mode
Macros
Fortunately, no, because the K2600 lets you create macro Þles with entries that donÕt specify a
Disk ID. When the K2600 is loading a macro Þle, and encounters an entry with an unspeciÞed
Disk ID, it expects to Þnd the Þles on the same disk as the macro Þle. So you can create a macro
Þle by loading a bunch of Þles from your Zip drive, editing every entry so that it has an
unspeciÞed Disk ID, and saving the RAM Macro table. Then you can put the macro Þle and all
the Þles in its Macro table on a Zip disk, and hand the disk to a friend. Your friend can then load
the macro into her K2600, and it will load the Þles no matter where she has her Zip driveÕs SCSI
ID set.
This feature is likely to be most useful for people who distribute K2600 sound Þles and macro
Þles on removable media. By leaving the Disk ID unspeciÞed, they can be sure that anyone can
load the Þles without regard for SCSI ID.
Of course, there are other uses. If you use a single hard disk with your K2600, or if you regularly
work with macro Þles that load Þles from the same disk, then if you set all the macro ÞleÕs Disk
IDs to unspeciÞed you wonÕt have to edit your macro Þles if you happen to change your diskÕs
SCSI ID.
The Modify Macro page is where you can set unspeciÞed Disk IDs (in Disk mode, press the
Macro soft button, then the Modify soft button). See Editing Macros on page 13-54 for more
information.

The Library Disk

If a macro entry is set to the library Disk ID, it means that the Þle to be loaded should be found
on the disk at the SCSI ID set by the Library parameter on the Disk-mode page. This designation
is similar in purpose to the unspeciÞed Disk ID, because it is a way to avoid needing to hard-
wire the SCSI ID in advance. The library disk ID is intended to be used in macro Þles that reside
on removable media such as a ßoppy disk, whose macro entries are supposed to load particular
Þles on a speciÞc sample CD.
The main purpose of this feature is so that macro Þles can be distributed on ßoppy disks
containing programs that link up with sample Þles from CD-ROMs. You donÕt want to have to
copy a CD-ROM Þle to one of your hard disks in order to make new programs that use that
CD-ROM ÞleÕs sample and keymap data. If you set up your CD-ROM drive as the library disk,
then create a macro Þle with entries that specify Library (L) for the Disk ID, the K2600 will be
able to load Þles directly from the CD-ROM, then load the programs from the ßoppy disk, link
the programs with the sample and keymaps using the Relink-by-Name feature.
HereÕs an example. In the following diagram, the Library parameter has been set to SCSI 3.
DiskMode||||Samples:10022K||Memory:|42K|
Path|=|\||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Macro|on)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CurrentDisk:Floppy||||||||Startup:Off|||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||Library:SCSI|3
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<more|||Load|||Save||Macro||Delete|more>
WeÕll assume that SCSI 3 is your CD-ROM drive, and that you have a ßoppy disk that contains a
macro Þle with the following entries:
L:\PIANO4MB.K26||||||||||||||||200:F:Obj
F:\PNOPROGS.K26||||||||||||||||200:F:|||
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