The Page Buttons; The Miscellaneous (Misc) Page - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

least one more point. If you select the Alt parameter and press the Link soft button, the Start and
Alt points will be linked. Now if you move the Start point to 1.0 seconds, the Alt point will
automatically move to 1.5 seconds, preserving the half-second interval between Start and Alt. To
remove the link on any of the points, select the point again, and press the Link soft button again.
The arrow will change to a colon, indicating that the link has been removed.
When editing RAM samples, you canÕt assign Start, Alt, Loop, or End points that extend beyond
the boundaries of the actual sample data (you can do this with ROM samples). Consequently, if
you attempt to move any of the linked points of a RAM sample beyond the physical start or end
of the sample, the K2600 changes the interval between the points accordingly. For example,
suppose you have a sample with Start and Alt linked. Start is at 0 seconds, and Alt is at 1 second.
If you move Alt to a later point, Start tracks with it, so the interval between Start and Alt remains
at 1 second. If you move Alt to .5 seconds, the K2600 tries to move Start accordingly, but canÕt
move it earlier than 0 seconds, so the interval between Start and Alt shrinks to .5 seconds. Even
if you move Alt back to 1 second, the interval remains at .5 seconds. YouÕd have to reset Start
manually to restore the original 1-second interval.
As a convenience, the Song mode button also serves as a link button while in the Sample Editor.
Name, Save, Delete, and Dump
These soft buttons are similar to the Name, Save, Delete, and Dump soft buttons in the other
editors, initiating the corresponding dialogs to name, save, delete, or dump the currently
selected sample.
When you press the Save soft button, and choose to save the sample to a new ID, the K2600 will
ask you if you want to copy the sample data. If you answer Yes, the K2600 will make a separate
copy of the sample. If you answer No, the K2600 will simply mark the location of the original
sample data and share the sample between the original and the edited sample. This can save a
great deal of memory space. If you delete a sample thatÕs partially or completely shared with
another, the K2600 deletes only the portions that are unused by the shared sample, always
optimizing its memory for maximum storage capacity.
Note that if you use the Utility function to view the objects currently stored in the K2600, youÕll
see each object listed separately, including shared samples. The shared samples will each
indicate their size, even though theyÕre referring to the same memory location. This might lead
you to believe that youÕre using more memory for samples than you actually are. If you use the
Utility function to calculate your total sample memory usage, remember not to include any
shared samples in the total.
Dump lets you transfer (dump) samples using the MIDI sample dump protocol. See Chapter 6
of the MusicianÕs Reference for more information.

The Page Buttons

The soft buttons labeled in all capital letters select the various pages in the Sample Editor:
MISC, TRIM, and LOOP (as well as DSP when youÕre editing RAM samples).

The Miscellaneous (MISC) Page

On the MISC page, youÕll set several parameters that affect the behavior of the current sample.
These parameters affect the entire sample. The diagram of the MISC page shows a ROM sample,
and since the DSP functions cannot be applied to ROM samples, the DSP soft button is not
available. In its place is the Link soft button, which enables you to maintain equal times
between various points in the sampleÑStart and Alt, for example.
Sampling and Sample Editing
Editing Samples
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