Kurzweil K2000 - GUIDE SUPPLEMENT - VERSION 3 Musician’s Manual Supplement page 166

Disk Mode Enhancements in Version 3
Macros
macro files that reside on removable media such as a floppy disk, whose macro entries are
supposed to load in particular files on a specific sample CD.
The main purpose of this feature is so that macro files can be distributed on a floppy disks
containing programs that link up with sample files from CD-ROMs. Formerly, a user would
have to copy the CD-ROM file to their own hard drive if they wanted to make any new
programs that use a CD-ROM file's sample and keymap data.
There are a lot of possibilities in the K2000 to come up with new programs for using with many
available sample CDs. Now it is possible to distribute programs or sequences based on a floppy
to other K2000 users who already have a certain sample CD in their collection. They should be
able to load the correct sequences of files just by loading a macro, without those nasty SCSI ID
conflicts.
A macro of this type would first load the CD-ROM files containing samples and keymaps (off
the Library disk), and then load in files from the floppy disk. The program files from the floppy
should correctly link up to the pre-loaded keymaps and samples via the Relink-by-Name
feature.
In order for the files in the macro with a Library drive ID to be found, the user of the macro must
have already set up their Library parameter to be the SCSI ID of their CD-ROM drive.
In the following diagram, notice that the Library parameter has been set to SCSI 3.
DiskMode||||Samples:10022K||Memory:|42K|
Path|=|\||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Macro|on)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CurrentDisk:Floppy||||||||Startup:Off|||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||Library:SCSI|3
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<more|||Load|||Save||Macro||Delete|more>
Assuming SCSI 3 is the user's CD-ROM drive, the user is now prepared to load a macro file from
on a floppy disk that contains the following entries:
L:\PIANO4MB.KRZ||||||||||||||||200:F:Obj
F:\PNOPROGS.KRZ||||||||||||||||200:F:|||
When the above macro entries are loaded, the file \PIANO4MB.KRZ will be looked for on the
drive with address SCSI 3, since this is what the Library parameter on the Disk mode page has
been set to. If the correct CD-ROM has been placed in the drive, the K2000 will load the file, and
then continue and load \PNOPROGS.KRZ from the floppy disk.
If the K2000 executes the above macro, but the Library parameter has not been set (is set to Off)
an error message
attempts to load \PIANO4MB.KRZ.
The above example is a typical case where the Relink-by-Name feature is used to have one file
containing programs depend on another file containing samples and keymaps, yet the files are
on different drives. The CD-ROM in the example might just as well have been an Akai or Roland
format, and the file from the floppy would contain the latest custom K2000 programs making
good use of the imported data.
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(Library|has|not|been|set) will be displayed when the macro process