How To Make A Macro File - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 13 Manual

Pressing No will return to the Macro page with no action taken. The "Reset macro?" question is
displayed to allow you to change your mind about deleting the Macro Table, in case you have
accidentally pressed the Off button.
When the Macro Table is first created it takes up a minimal size (14 bytes) in your non-volatile
RAM. With each new entry that is added, the Macro Table will increase in size by
approximately 40 to 100 bytes (or possibly more if the entry specifies an individual object list).
When the Pause mode is entered, the Macro Table continues to remain in memory but does not
change size since file operations are not being recorded. This is useful if you need to load some
files into the K2500 but you don't want them to be entered into the Macro Table.
A Macro Table gets progressively larger as more file operations are recorded into it. Because of
this, you will want to control when a Macro Table is stored in your K2500's memory. If you are
concerned about keeping enough free space for all of your other objects, you may want to
practice the following strategy - when you want to record a Macro, enable Macro Record mode,
and when you are finished (and possibly have saved some Macro files), turn Macro mode Off.
This will reclaim the storage space taken up by the Macro Table.
If you are confident that you have enough K2500 object memory installed and that you can
allow the Macro Table to increase in size as you work, then you may wish to leave Macro
Record mode enabled all the time. This can be useful if you want to keep a running history of
files you have recently loaded in. Both the Macro mode and the Macro Table are remembered
between power-cycles of the K2500 via the battery-backed memory.
A Macro can hold as many entries as there is space for in your K2500's non-volatile RAM.

How to Make a Macro File

This section will take you through creating, saving, and loading in a Macro file. A simple
example will be used. Afterwards, you will be able to apply the example and create your own
Macro files.
The first step in making a Macro file is to turn on Macro Record mode (from the Macro Page,
press On), if you have not already done so.
Creating the Macro
Suppose you have the following four files on your disk (on SCSI ID 5, in the directory
\ANALOG\) that contain analog style synthesizer patches, and you would like to have one
Macro file that will load them all in:
Dir:\ANALOG\|||||Sel:4/4|||||Index:|||1|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||File|to|load:MULTIVOX|.KRZ*||||98K||
|||||||||||||||||NOISE||||.KRZ*||||36K||
|||||||||||||||||RESONANT|.KRZ*|||109K||
|Total:664K||||||SYNAPSE||.KRZ*|||421K||
Select||Root||Parent||Open|||OK|||Cancel
Using multiple selection, you can select all four files, as shown. When you press OK you will
see the "Load selected as:" dialog, but with the extra soft buttons Macro and Insert:
Disk Mode
Macros
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