The Midi Sample Dump Standard; Loading Samples With The Midi Standard Sample Dump - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910252 CHAP 10 Manual

The MIDI Sample Dump Standard

Samples can be transferred between the K2500 and most other samplers and computer
sampling programs using the MIDI Sample Dump Standard.
Due to the relatively slow transfer rate of MIDI data, transferring samples into the K2500 via
the MIDI Sample Dump Standard can take a long time, on the order of a coffee break for a long
sample. Most samplers, synthesizers, and computer software will "freeze up" during this
process, preventing other features of the machine or program from being used. Your K2500,
however, will allow you to continue playing the instrument or using any of its sound editing
features during a MIDI Sample Dump! The transfer takes place in the background; the MIDI
mode LED on the K2500's front-panel will flash repeatedly during the transfer, so you will
always know if the MIDI Sample Dump is still proceeding. The MIDI mode LED will flash only
when the K2500 is transmitting or receiving a MIDI Sample Dump, or when it receives a MIDI
System Exclusive message.
Note: if you're using Sound Designer® to transfer samples, you'll have to offset the sample
number by 2 to transfer the right sample. For example, if you want to dump sample ID 208
from the K2500, then when you begin the sample fetching command from Sound Designer,
instruct it to get sample 210.

Loading Samples with the MIDI Standard Sample Dump

To load a sample into the K2500 from an external source such as a computer or sampler, first
connect the MIDI Out port of the sampler (or computer) to the K2500's MIDI In port, and
connect the K2500's MIDI Out to the MIDI In of the sampler. This is known as a closed-loop
configuration.
Next, access the Sample Dump facility on the sampler. In addition to selecting which sample
you wish to transfer over MIDI, you will need to set the correct sample dump channel number
and destination sample number. The channel number should match the K2500's SysX ID
parameter (on the RECV page in MIDI mode). If the sampler has no facility for setting the
Sample Dump channel number, try setting the K2500's SysX ID parameter to 0 or 1.
Alternatively, if you set the SysX ID to 127, the K2500 will accept a MIDI Sample Dump no
matter what Sample Dump channel is used to send the sample dump.
If the sampler has a provision for setting the destination sample number, you can use it to
specify the ID the K2500 will use for storing the sample. The K2500 sample number is mapped
from the destination sample number as follows:
Sample Number
0
1-199
200-999
If the sample number maps to a number already assigned to a RAM sample in the K2500, the
RAM sample will be deleted prior to the K2500's accepting of the new sample load. The K2500
will always map sample number zero to an unassigned ID, and therefore no samples will be
overwritten when zero is specified.
Some computer-based sample editing software limits the sample numbers to a low range such
as 1-128. This conflicts with the K2500, which reserves IDs 1-199 for ROM samples, which
cannot be loaded or dumped. To get around this, the K2500 adds 200 to any numbers between 1
and 199. Therefore, if you want to load a sample into the K2500 at number 219, but your
program can't transfer samples at numbers greater than 128, specify number 19 (There's an
exception to this; please see "Troubleshooting a MIDI Sample Dump" later in this section).
K2500 ID
uses lowest unassigned ID between 200 and 999.
adds 200 to the ID (i.e. 5 becomes 205 in the K2500.)
ID is the same number.
MIDI, SCSI, and Sample Dumps
The MIDI Sample Dump Standard
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