Creating A Startup File; Deleting Banks In A Startup File - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 13 Manual

Creating a Startup File

You can create a Macro file that will automatically be loaded in when you power-on your
K2500. This file, called the Startup file, or Boot Macro, can be on a disk drive at any SCSI ID or
else on the Floppy disk. See the section on Macros for background information.
The steps needed to create a Startup file are:
First, create a Macro file called BOOT.MAC in the root directory of the SCSI or Floppy disk that
you will use as the Startup disk. Specify in the Macro the exact ordering of files that you would
like to have loaded into the K2500 when powered on. When you save the Macro file, just name
the file "BOOT", and the K2500 will add the ".MAC" extension.
Second, set the Startup parameter on the Disk Mode page to be the drive ID of the Startup disk.
So, if your BOOT.MAC file was on a floppy disk, set the Startup parameter to Floppy and make
sure that you have the correct floppy in the drive when you next turn the K2500 on.
When the K2500 is powered on, it will display the following message (after the introductory
VAST logo):
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The K2500 looks for a file BOOT.MAC in the root directory on the drive specified by the
Startup parameter. If the file is not found, or the drive cannot be accessed, you will get an error
message. The Startup load can be bypassed in the first few seconds after the K2500 is turned
on, by pressing the Cancel button that is displayed on the screen.
If BOOT.MAC is found by the K2500, it will begin to load the Macro file as if you had loaded it
explicitly from the Load function in Disk Mode. When the Macro has completed, you will see
the following:
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The K2500 will go directly to Program Mode afterwards.

Deleting Banks in a Startup File

You may want the Startup file to clear out one or all banks in the K2500 before loading files.
This could help overcome the problem of having "silent" copies of programs in your RAM that
depend on samples that are no longer there (because they disappeared the last time the K2500's
power was turned off.) The following trick will allow a Macro entry to essentially function as a
Delete Bank or Delete Everything command:
Create a file somewhere on (preferably) your Startup disk, by saving an empty bank from the
K2500. Call the file NULL.KRZ. Now, insert this file at the beginning of a boot Macro you are
creating - load the file, specify the bank you want to delete in the Startup file (choose
Disk Mode
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