Kurzweil K2661, Musician’S Reference Manual

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MIDI, SCSI, and Sample Dumps
The MIDI Sample Dump Standard
Accessing a New K2661 Sample
First, select the K2661 program you wish to play the new sample from, and press Edit . Then
select the layer you wish (using the Chan/Bank buttons if necessary), press the KEYMAP soft
button, and select a keymap. Use the default keymap called 168 Silence if you don’t want to
alter any existing keymaps.
Now, enter the Keymap Editor by pressing Edit once again. Use the Sample parameter to select
the new sample. If the new sample was loaded from another K2661, it will have the same ID as it
did on the other K2661. If the sample was loaded from any other source, its ID will be de
fi ned as
described in Loading Samples with the MIDI Standard Sample Dump on page 6-4).
The name of the sample will be assigned by the K2661 if the sample has been assigned to a
previously unused ID. In most cases, the sample will have a name of
New Sample - C 4 .
The name will be New Sample! - C 4 (note the exclamation point) if checksum errors were
detected by the K2661. Checksum errors are usually not serious, since they may just mean the
source sampler doesn’t adhere to the MIDI Sample Dump Standard checksum calculation. In
other cases, a checksum error could indicate that the MIDI data
fl ow was interrupted during the
sample transfer.
You can now press Edit to edit the parameters of the new sample such as Root Key, Volume
Adjust, Pitch Adjust, and Loop Start point. You can also rename the sample. Be sure to save the
parameters you change when you press
Exit . Once the sample is adjusted to your liking, you
can assign it to any Keymap.
Troubleshooting a MIDI Sample Dump
This section will help you identify what has gone wrong if your MIDI sample dumps fail to
work.
When Loading Samples to the K2661
There are two reasons a K2661 will not accept a MIDI Sample Dump. First, a dump will not be
accepted if the destination sample number maps to a K2661 sample that is currently being
edited—that is, if you’re in the Sample Editor, and the currently selected sample has the same ID
as the sample you’re trying to dump. Second, a dump will not be accepted if the length of the
sample to be dumped exceeds the available sample RAM in the K2661. There may be samples in
the K2661 RAM that you can save to disk (if not already saved) and then delete from RAM to
free up sample RAM space. You can delete the current sample by pressing the Delete soft button
while in the Sample Editor.
Note that when you’re loading a sample to an ID that’s already in use, the K2661 will not accept
a MIDI Sample Dump if the length of the sample to be loaded exceeds the amount of available
sample RAM
plus the length of the existing sample. If the K2661 accepts the sample load, the
previously existing sample will be deleted.
Also note that certain computer-based editing programs will subtract one from the sample
number when performing MIDI sample transfers to remote devices. So if you instruct these
programs to send a sample to the K2661 as sample ID 204, the program will send the sample as
203. The only way to know if your program behaves in this manner is to try a MIDI Sample
Dump and see what happens.