Converting Programs From The K2500 To K2000; Programs Using Drum Samples; Effects Programs - Kurzweil K2500 Reference Manual

Converting programs from the K2500 to K2000

There may be times when you wish to take a file you have created for your K2500 and load it
into a K2000. As we have mentioned in the above section on loading K2000 files into the K2500,
most objects are compatible.
There are, however, a few things of which you should be aware. The following sections will
explain.

Programs using Drum samples

Since the K2500 has new drum samples, these programs will not translate correctly. The K2500
drum samples are not available on disk to be loaded into the K2000, so these programs simply
can not be converted so that they will sound identical.
However, if you have some K2500 programs which take advantage of VAST programming and
wish to use them in a K2000, you can load the program into the K2000, then edit the program to
change the keymaps to the corresponding drum keymap. If the keymap is one of the 5 octave or
2 octave kit keymaps, you will find that for the most part, the type of percussion sound will
match up, though there may be a few which don't. Keep in mind though that the sound itself
may be quite different, since the samples are different.

Effects Programs

The preset effects programs in the K2500 are different than in the K2000. However, since these
effects programs consist simply of different values for the various editable parameters, a K2500
effect can be loaded into the K2000.
Here is the simplest way to include a K2500 effect in your file with the program. On the K2500,
call up the program that you will be porting to the K2000. Press edit and go to the EFFECT
page. Press edit again to enter the Effects Editor. Now press save to save that effect to RAM.
Once it is saved, press exit. You will now see that the RAM effect is assigned to the program.
Press exit and save the program before leaving the editor. If the effect was saved to the same
bank as the program, and you are saving the entire bank, both objects will be saved to the file. If
the effect was saved to a different bank or you are selecting only individual programs to be
saved to disk, be sure to answer yes to the "Save Dependent Objects?" question and the effect
will be saved along with the program.
If you have a great number of programs that you want to convert and don't want to edit each of
those programs, there is another method you can use. You can create your own K2500 effects
compatibility file, similar to the K2000 effects file. This method will require more work initially,
but once it is done, the file can easily be used again and again.
To do this, start with the K2500 cleared of all RAM objects. (Go to Master and delete
Everything.) Now go to Effects Mode, call up each effect one by one, going into the Effects
Editor and saving that effect to RAM. Save the effect back to the exact same number it was
originally at, choosing Replace. For instance, save effect #17 back to location #17. (If you have
an editor/librarian software program for your computer, you can get all the effects in one shot
and save them to the same RAM locations.) Now save an Everything file to Disk. You now have
a file similar to the K2KFX.K25 file on the compatibility disks. You can use the exact same set of
five steps documented in the section on converting K2000 files to the K2500, but this time you
will be loading the files into the K2000. (Don't forget to delete Everything in the K2500 when
you are done creating the compatibility file.)
K2000 Compatibility
Converting programs from the K2500 to K2000
Appendix B-3