Viewing Ram Objects; Choosing And Installing Simms For K2600 Sample Memory; Simm Specifications - Kurzweil K2600 Musician’s Reference

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Choosing and Installing SIMMs for K2600 Sample Memory

information, however, will remain in program RAM indeÞnitely. When you power up again,
your RAM programs will still appear in the display as you scroll through the program list, but
they wonÕt play if they use RAM samples, because the RAM samples are lost when you power
down.

Viewing RAM Objects

If youÕre a heavy Disk-mode user, youÕll often be faced with the decision to overwrite, merge, or
append objects when you load Þles from disk. If youÕre loading into a memory bank thatÕs
nearly full, this can be a tricky call, because if you decide to merge or append, there may not be
enough open slots in the memory bank to accommodate the objects you load. In this case, the
extra objects will be loaded into the next-higher memory bank.
Things get even trickier if you save dependent objects when you save to disk. (A dependent
object is any object thatÕs associated with another object stored in a different memory bankÑfor
example, a RAM sample with ID 301 thatÕs used in a program with ID 200. See the discussions of
dependent objects on page 13-18 and page 13-29 of the MusicianÕs Guide. If you load a Þle that
contains a number of dependent objects, some of them may be loaded into a higher memory
bank than the one you speciÞed in the Bank dialog before you loaded the Þle. A quick way to see
where the objects you loaded ended up is to use the Objects utility function in Master mode.
Select Master mode and press the Utility soft button. Press the Objects soft button, and a list of
RAM objects will appear. Use the Alpha Wheel to scroll through the list of objects. YouÕll see the
type, ID, name, and size (in bytes) of each object.
Choosing and Installing SIMMs for K2600 Sample Memory
SIMM Specifications
SIMMs for sample RAM must have the following characteristics:
¥ 72-pin noncomposite single, in-line memory modules (SIMMs), in sizes of 4 M, 8 M, 16 M,
32 M, 64 M, or 128 M
¥ 8- or 9-bit
¥ 3-volt or 5-volt (most SIMMS currently on the market are 5-volt)
¥ Fast-page (FPM) or extra data output (EDO) (80-nanosecond or faster)
You can add one or two SIMMs, up to a total of 128 M. See Table 9-1 on page 9-3 for size
compatibility requrements.
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