Deleting Objects - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 5 Editing Manual

Editing Conventions

Deleting Objects

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ROM Objects
If the object you started from was a ROM (factory preset) object, the K2500 will automatically
suggest the next available (unused) ID as the ID for the edited object. If that's the ID you want,
press the Save soft button, and the object will be stored in RAM with that ID. Otherwise, you
can select any ID from 1 to 999. This screen also gives you the opportunity to return to the
naming dialog (as described in the previous section) or, by pressing the Object soft button, to
access the Object Utilities (described in Chapter 13 of this manual).
If you select an ID that's already in use, the K2500 will tell you that you're going to replace the
ROM object that's already been assigned that ID. If you don't want to do that, you can select a
different ID. Or you can press the Plus/Minus buttons simultaneously to toggle between the ID
that the K2500 suggested and the original ID. Or press the Cancel soft button to cancel the
operation.
If you decide not to cancel or change the ID, and you press the Replace soft button, the K2500
will write your newly edited object over the existing ROM object. Actually, it only appears that
way, since you can't truly write to ROM. The ROM object will reappear if you delete the newly
edited object (there are soft buttons in each editor for deleting objects).
RAM Objects
If the original object was a RAM object, the K2500 will assume you want to replace it, and will
suggest the same ID as the original object (if it has an asterisk—*—between its ID and its name,
it's a RAM object. As with ROM objects, you can cancel, replace, or change the ID and save to
an unused ID. If you replace a RAM object, however, it's definitely gone!
Deleting Objects
Within most editors, there are soft buttons for deleting objects. When you want to delete an
object, press the Delete soft button, and the K2500 will ask you if you want to delete the object.
Press OK if you want to delete it, or press Cancel if you don't. Although it seems that you can
delete ROM objects, you can't actually do it. The K2500 will behave as if it's deleting the ROM
object, but it will still be there the next time you select it. (What actually happens is that the
ROM object is copied to RAM as soon as you press EDIT, and when you "delete" the ROM
object, you're actually deleting the RAM copy. The original ROM object remains in memory.)
RAM objects, on the other hand, are gone when you delete them! If you've "replaced" a ROM
object by saving a RAM object with the same ID, the ROM object is invisible, but still there.
Deleting the RAM object stored at the same ID will restore the ROM object.
You can use the Delete function to delete any object from the current list of objects. After you
press the Delete soft button, use one of the data entry methods to select any other object in the
current list of objects. Then press Delete again. You'll often delete objects to gain RAM space, or
to organize the memory banks before saving objects to disk. To delete multiple objects, use the
Delete Objects utility available in Master mode. It's described on page 11--9.
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