The Macro Page - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 13 Manual

Disk Mode
Macros
Selecting the Directory to use for Saving a File
After you specify the file name when saving any file, you can then be choose either the default
current directory for saving the file in, or any other directory on the current disk:
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Pressing OK will select the default path (the current directory), which in this display is the root
directory , "\". Pressing Change will allow you to view the disk, traversing its directories, until
you find the one in which you want to save the file. If you choose a different directory from the
default, it will become the new default directory. For more information on selecting a directory,
see "The Directory Selection Dialog", near the beginning of this chapter.
Saving Any File sets the File Index
After saving a file, you can go to any disk function (such as Load), and the just saved file will be
automatically highlighted. This makes it easy to find a file that you have just saved, in case you
want to delete it, add it to a Macro, move it to a different directory, open it (if it is a.KRZ or a
.MAC file), etc.
Macros
The K2500 lets you create lists of disk files called Macros. The files can be located on any drive,
whether SCSI based or the internal Floppy drive. Files from SCSI drives in Roland and Akai
format can also appear in Macros. Ensoniq files are not currently supported by K2500 macros.
Macros are stored in a data object called a Macro Table, and these can exist in two forms:
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2.
Macros are primarily used to configure a K2500 with sound and sequence data from several
files, or selected objects within files. When a Macro file is loaded, every file that is listed in its
Macro Table will be loaded in, according to the order of the entries in the Macro Table.

The Macro Page

There can only be one Macro Table in the K2500's memory at any time. This object is created for
the first time by turning on Macro Record mode, from the Macro page, which you reach by
pressing the Macro soft button on the Disk mode page, as shown below.
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A Macro Table object in the K2500's non-volatile RAM.
A disk file, containing one Macro Table object. This disk file is called a Macro file, and it
has a .MAC extension (visible in the directory listing).