Deleting Banks In A Startup File - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Disk Mode
Creating a Startup File
When the K2600 is powered on, it will display the following message (after the introductory
VAST logo):
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The K2600 looks for a Þle BOOT.MAC in the root directory on the disk speciÞed by the Startup
parameter. If the Þle is not found, or the disk cannot be accessed, you will get an error message.
The Startup load can be bypassed in the Þrst few seconds after the K2600 is turned on, by
pressing the Cancel button.
If BOOT.MAC is found by the K2600, it will begin to load the macro Þle as if you had loaded it
explicitly from the Load function in Disk mode. When the macro has completed, you will see the
following:
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The K2600 will go directly to Program mode afterwards.

Deleting Banks in a Startup File

You may want the Startup Þle to clear out one or all banks in the K2600 before loading Þles. This
could help overcome the problem of having ÒsilentÓ copies of programs in your RAM that
depend on samples that are no longer there (because they disappeared the last time the K2600Õs
power was turned off). The following trick will allow a macro entry to essentially function as a
Delete Bank or Delete Everything command:
Create a Þle somewhere on (preferably) your Startup disk, by saving an empty bank from the
K2600. Call the Þle NULL.K26. Now, insert this Þle at the beginning of a boot macro you are
creating: load the Þle, specify the bank you want to delete in the Startup Þle (or specify
Everything if you want to clear RAM completely), and specify Overwrite for the load mode.
Make sure you press Macro and not OK, so that the overwrite doesnÕt take place until you use
the Startup Þle.
Here is what that macro entry for this Þle might look like on the MACRO page, if you were
doing a ÒDelete EverythingÓ
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The E:O: stands for ÒLoad to all banks, using Overwrite mode.Ó
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