Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual page 384

Disk Mode
Importing Samples from Other Manufacturers
Akai
The Þrst page to appear is the page for loading Þles. The soft buttons name the operations:
HDrive, Volume, and File on the left, and OK and Cancel on the right.
The hierarchy of objects is shown by the three soft buttons on the left. The display prompts you:
ÒFile to load:Ó The HDrive button selects the partition on the currently selected disk. The
Volume button selects volumes within the currently selected partition. The File button selects
an individual sample Þle from within a volume. The OK button, toward the right, executes the
displayed function: partition selection, or loading a volume or Þle. The Cancel button returns
you to the Disk-mode page.
When you press the HDrive button, the center of the displayÕs top line shows the currently
selected volume in the currently selected partition. The prompt at the center of the display will
read: ÒHD Partition.Ó The list of available partitions will appear following the prompt. TheyÕre
usually named A through F. Use the cursor buttons or numeric entry to highlight a different
partition. Pressing the OK soft button will select the highlighted partition.
Pressing the Volume button will change the prompt to ÒVolume to load:Ó The list of available
volumes in the current partition will appear. The center of the top line will show the current
partition. The Layer buttons will scroll through the list of available partitions. Use the cursor
buttons or numeric entry to select a different volume. Pressing the OK button will load the
entire highlighted volume, unless the volume is larger than your available sample RAM, in
which case, the K2600 will load as many Þles as will Þt.
The Bank dialog will appear, enabling you to select the bank that will receive the volume. Press
OK again, and youÕll be prompted to press either the Progs soft button, which will load program
information in addition to the samples, or the Samps soft button, which will load only the
sample information. Programs are identiÞed by the extension .p, and are stored in program
RAM. Samples have the extension .s, and are stored in sample RAM. You can press Cancel to
return to the Disk-mode page without loading the volume.
If you load sample objects, youÕll see the following prompt: Create preview program/keymap?
If you answer Yes, the K2600 will load the samples into a program that it creates based on Layer
1 of Program 199. Loading program objects will load multi-layer samples and keymaps, and
sometimes velocity switches. The K2600 will create layers as necessary when you load program
objects. These layers have the same settings as Layer 1 of Program 199. In some cases, the K2600
will also create stereo keymaps to preserve the separation of stereo samples.
If you press the File button, the prompt will change to the Load dialog. You can view the list of
Þles with the cursor buttons, or use numeric entry. The top line of the display will show the
currently selected volume. Select different volumes with the Layer buttons. The size of the
currently selected Þle, in kilobytes, is shown just above the soft buttons on the left. Press the OK
button to load the highlighted Þle.
Press OK, and the Bank dialog will appear. Press OK again, and the Þle will be loaded into the
highlighted bank.
Sometimes you may Þnd an Akai ßoppy disk that your K2600 canÕt read. In this case, check the
format of the disk. Akai allows you to format a double sided-double density (DD) disk for high
density (HD). This is not standard in the computer industry, since DD disks are not veriÞed for
use as HD disks. If this is the case, you will need to load the disk into an Akai, then save it out to
a properly formatted disk.
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