Deleting Banks In A Startup File - Kurzweil K2000 - MUSICIANS GUIDE Musician's Manual

Disk Mode
Creating a Startup File
Second, set the Startup parameter on the Disk Mode page to be the drive ID of the Startup disk.
So, if your BOOT.MAC Þle was on a ßoppy disk, set the Startup parameter to Floppy and make
sure that you have the correct ßoppy in the drive when you next turn the K2vx on.
When the K2vx is powered on, it will display the following message (after the introductory
VAST logo):
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The K2vx looks for a Þle BOOT.MAC in the root directory on the drive speciÞed by the Startup
parameter. If the Þle is not found, or the drive cannot be accessed, you will get an error
message. The Startup load can be bypassed in the Þrst few seconds after the K2vx is turned on,
by pressing the Cancel button that is displayed on the screen.
If BOOT.MAC is found by the K2vx, it will begin to load the Macro Þle 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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Macro|BOOT.MAC|completed...|||||||||||||
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The K2vx will go directly to Program Mode afterwards.

Deleting Banks in a Startup File

You may want the Startup Þle to clear out one or all banks in the K2vx before loading Þles. 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 K2vx'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 Þle somewhere on (preferably) your Startup disk, by saving an empty bank from the
K2vx. Call the Þle NULL.KRZ. Now, insert this Þle at the beginning of a boot Macro you are
creating - load the Þle, specify the bank you want to delete in the Startup Þle (choose
'Everything' to clear out all of the object RAM) ,and specify Overwrite for the load mode. Make
sure you press Macro and not OK, so that the overwrite doesn't take place until you use the
Startup Þle.
Here is what that Macro entry for this Þle might look like on the Macro page, if you were doing
a "Delete Everything"
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The "E:O" stands for "Load as Everything, using Overwrite mode".
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