Kurzweil K2661 Musician's Manual page 359

Once you have pressed either Macro or OK, the loading-mode buttons appear (OvFill,
Overwrt, Merge, Append, and Fill). Choose a mode based on what you want to happen when
you load the macro, because the mode gets saved as part of the Macro table. You should do this
because the bank you select for the Macro table may be empty now, but it might not be when
you load the macro. You need to set the mode accordingly. If preserving the IDs of the loaded
objects is important, you should use Merge or Overwrt. If IDs aren't as important as preserving
the objects already in RAM, use Fill or Append.
For the sake of this example, let's choose the 200s bank and Fill mode. When you press Fill, the
K2661 executes the OK or Macro command you entered earlier. If you had pressed Macro, the
K2661 would add the selected objects to the Macro table. If you had pressed OK, the K2661
would add the selected objects to the Macro table, and load them into the selected bank as well.
You have now created a macro. If you go to the MACRO page (from the Disk-mode page, press
Macro), you'll see the files listed in the K2661's current Macro table.
Saving the Macro File
At this point you have a Macro table with several entries in it, but you don't have a macro file
until you save the current Macro table. From the Disk-mode page, press Save, then press Macro.
You'll see the following dialog:
This is called the Save Macro page. The soft buttons on this page control which Macro table
entries (macro entries) will get saved to the Macro table in the macro file. You can select multiple
entries using the cursor buttons and the Select soft button. Selected entries have an asterisk on
the first character of the display line, such as this:
You can use the following double-presses to select and deselect all entries in the list:
• Left/Right cursor double-press: Select all macro entries
• Up/Down cursor double-press: Clear (deselect) all currently-selected macro entries
The top line indicates how many total macro entries are in the current Macro table, and how
many are selected.
Pressing OK saves the selected macro entries to be saved in the file. If there are no entries
selected when you press OK, the K2661 saves only the highlighted entry.
You might think that there isn't much use for a macro file with only one entry in it, however it
can be a convenient link to an often-used file. For example, you could create a macro file called
\PERC.MAC in the root directory on the disk where you store your programs. This macro file
could load a single object, namely the file \MYSOUNDS\PERC\TECHNO\PERC.K26. When
you wanted to load PERC.K26, you could simply load the macro PERC.MAC, instead of having
Disk Mode
Macros
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