Alesis K2661 specifications Dump, Deletedependentobjects? YesNo, 11-19

Master Mode

Object Utilities

If any of the selected objects have dependents that were not selected, you will see the question:

Deletedependentobjects?

YesNo

If you answer Yes to this question, all dependent objects of the selected objects are deleted, unless they are being used as dependents of other objects that are to remain in memory.

Answering No will delete only those objects that were selected.

Dump

This utility is for dumping selected objects over MIDI. If any of the selected objects have dependents that were not selected, you will be asked the question “Dump dependent objects?”

Press OK to initiate a MIDI System Exclusive dump of the selected set of objects, one by one out the MIDI Out port of the K2661. Dumping everything can generate massive dumps, so you should know the limits of the device you’re dumping to.You can cancel the dump at any time with the Cancel soft button.

Note that only sample objects (which contain the Start, Alt, Loop, and End points, as well as the values of all parameters found on the MISC page in the Sample Editor) are dumped by this utility, and not RAM sample data. (RAM sample data can be dumped via the MIDI Sample Dump Standard from within the EditSample page. See Chapter 6 of the Musician’s Reference for more information on the MIDI Sample Dump Standard.) Dumping the sample object of a RAM sample is not very useful because the sample memory address ranges are fixed in the object. This means that if you load the sample object back into the K2661 via MIDI, there is virtually no way it will point to and play back the same area of sample memory as when it was dumped, let alone the same sample data. However, this can lead to some interesting results.

Sample objects that reference the K2661’s ROM sample area will reference the same area when you load them back in via MIDI.

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