User manual KURZWEIL K2600 ROM INSTALLATION REV E

[. . . ] Installing Kurzweil K2600 ROM Options Thank you for buying a ROM option for your K2600. This document shows you how to install any of the ROM option kits into any K2600 instrument, whether it's a keyboard model or a rackmount model. What's In This Document · · · · · · · · · · Option Kits and Part Numbers . 13 Option Kits and Part Numbers · · · · · · RMB-26 RMB1-26 RMB2-26 RMB3-26 RMB4-26 RMB5-26 ROM Option Daughter Board (required for any option card) Orchestral ROM Option Card Contemporary ROM Option Card Stereo Dynamic (SD) Piano ROM Option Card Vintage EPs ROM Option Card General MIDI ROM Option Card Part No. E Installing Kurzweil K2600 ROM Options System Requirements System Requirements Daughter Board You can install ROM options (also called sound options or soundblocks) in any K2600. [. . . ] You'll need to reinstall the base objects first, then install the object file for each of the options installed in your K2600. Some of the ROM options may also require an operating system update, as shown below. For these, we recommend that you install the operating system files first. ROM Option SD Piano (ROM 3) Vintage EPs (ROM 4) General MIDI (ROM 5) Minimum K2600 OS Level 3. 01 3. 10 4. 0 For all the factory programs (both the standard factory programs numbered from 1 to 199 and the factory programs for the options) to be available, you must reinstall the base objects, followed by the objects for all of your options. For example, if you installed the Contemporary ROM option last year, and you've just installed the Orchestral ROM option, you must install the base objects file, then install the object files for the Contemporary option and the Orchestral option--you can't simply install the object files for the Orchestral option alone. How to Interpret the Filenames If you look at the table at the end of this document, you'll see lists of filenames that look something like this: OBJKB300. K26 The name of each object file has four parts: · · · Prefix: three or four characters that identify the type of the file. In our example above, OBJK identifies the file as an object file for the K2600. Operating system files have a one-character suffix to the version, identifying the two parts of the entire set of operating system data. Extension: three characters following a dot, and identifying the file type to the K2600. Object files (including those containing programs, songs--all the objects you can save with the K2600) have the extension K26. Operating system files have the extension KOS. · Throughout this document, we use placeholders to represent the version numbers in filenames. Instead of using specific version numbers, we use nnn to represent any version of a file--as expressed in the description of filename prefixes, above. 8 Installing Kurzweil K2600 ROM Options Installing Object Files Organizing the Object Files We strongly recommend that you get the object files for your options in order before you begin installing them. Otherwise it's easy to lose track of what you've installed and what you haven't. If you install an object file more than once, things will still work, but you might not have enough ROM space for all the object files, in which case you'll have to start over and install all the object files again. If you forget to install an object file, you'll definitely have to start over and install all the object files again. The table beginning on page 13 lists all the possible combinations of options, and the corresponding object files to install for each combination of options. To determine which files you need to install, go to the table and look in the "Option name" (first) column. Find the entry that matches the options that you now have in your instrument (that is, after installing any new options). Then look in the second column to find the object files that you'll need to install. For example, if you have the sampling feature, the Orchestral ROM option, and have just installed the Contemporary ROM option, you'll need to install the base-objects file (remember to install it before the other object files). After that, you'll need to install the Orchestral, Contemporary, and Live-mode object files (the Live-mode object file is for the sampling feature). The third column of the table gives the names of the object files as they appear in the K2600 display. If you have a hard disk connected to your K2600, we recommend putting all the required object files into a single directory that contains no other files. If you don't have a hard disk, organize your floppy disks in the order in which you want to install the objects. [. . . ] Use the version that corresponds to your operating system version Contemporary (RMB2-26) Contemporary objects Live-mode objects Operating System, Part A Operating System, Part B Only needed if sampling option is installed. v3. 01 or later required v3. 01 or later required Use the version that corresponds to your operating system version SD Piano (RMB3-26) Base objects SD Piano objects Live-mode objects Operating System, Part A Operating System, Part B Only needed if sampling option is installed. v3. 10 or later required v3. 10 or later required Use the version that corresponds to your operating system version Vintage EPs (RMB4-26) Base objects Vintage EPs objects Live-mode objects Operating System, Part A Operating System, Part B Only needed if sampling option is installed. v4 or later required v4 or later required Use the version that corresponds to your operating system version Orchestral and General MIDI Base objects Orchestral objects General MIDI objects Live-mode objects Base objects Only needed if sampling option is installed. 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