Disk Mode
Macros
13-47
Once you have pressed either
Macro
or
OK
, the loading-mode buttons appear (
OvFill
,
Overwrt
,
Merge
,
Append
, and
Fill
). Choose a mode based on what you want to happen
when
you load the macro
, because the mode gets saved as part of the Macro table. You should do this
because the bank you select for the Macro table may be empty now, but it might not be when
you load the macro. You need to set the mode accordingly. If preserving the IDs of the loaded
objects is important, you should use Merge or Overwrt. If IDs arenÕt as important as preserving
the objects already in RAM, use Fill or Append.
For the sake of this example, letÕs choose the 200s bank and Fill mode. When you press
Fill
, the
K2600 executes the
OK
or
Macro
command you entered earlier. If you had pressed
Macro
, the
K2600 would add the selected objects to the Macro table. If you had pressed
OK
, the K2600
would add the selected objects to the Macro table, and load them into the selected bank as well.
You have now created a macro. If you go to the MACRO page (from the Disk-mode page, press
Macro
), youÕll see the Þles listed in the K2600Õs current Macro table.
Saving the Macro File
At this point you have a Macro table with several entries in it, but you donÕt have a macro Þle
until you save the current Macro table. From the Disk-mode page, press
Save
, then press
Macro
.
YouÕll see the following dialog:
Func:SAVE|MACRO|||Sel:0/4||||Index:|||1|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|5:\ANALOG\MULTIVOX.K26|||||||||200:F:||
|5:\ANALOG\NOISE.K26||||||||||||200:F:||
|5:\ANALOG\RESONANT.K26|||||||||200:F:||
|5:\AN
ALOG\SYNAPSE.K
26||||
||
||||2
00
:F:||
Select
||||||||||||||
||All|
||
|OK||
||
Exit|
This is called the Save Macro page. The soft buttons on this page control which Macro table
entries (macro entries) will get saved to the Macro table in the macro Þle. You can select multiple
entries using the cursor buttons and the
Select
soft button. Selected entries have an asterisk on
the Þrst character of the display line, such as this:
*5:\ANALOG\RESONANT.K26|||||||||200:F:||
You can use the following double-presses to select and deselect all entries in the list:
¥
Left/Right
cursor double-press: Select all macro entries
¥
Up/Down
cursor double-press: Clear (deselect) all currently-selected macro entries
The top line indicates how many total macro entries are in the current Macro table, and how
many are selected.
Pressing
OK
saves the selected macro entries to be saved in the Þle. If there are no entries
selected when you press
OK
, the K2600 saves only the highlighted entry.
You might think that there isnÕt much use for a macro Þle with only one entry in it, however it
can be a convenient link to an often-used Þle. For example, you could create a macro Þle called
\PERC.MAC
in the root directory on the disk where you store your programs. This macro Þle
could load a single object, namely the Þle
\MYSOUNDS\PERC\TECHNO\PERC.K26
. When
you wanted to load
PERC.K26
, you could simply load the macro PERC.MAC, instead of having
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