Alesis K2661 specifications Loading Dependent Objects, Auditioning Samples from a Disk File, 13-18

Basic Disk Mode

Disk Mode Functions

Loading Dependent Objects

When you press OK after selecting one or more objects, the K2661 will ask the following question:

Loaddependentobjects?

YesNo

This dialog appears because one or more of the selected objects might have dependents associated with them in the file. (Remember, dependents are those objects needed by other objects; samples are dependents of keymaps, effects and keymaps are dependents of programs, and so on.) When this dialog appears, it does not necessarily mean that there really are dependents of the selected objects. The K2661 will not know whether there are dependent objects in the file until it begins to read in the selected objects, and determines what their dependents are.

Answering Yes to the question tells the K2661 to also load the dependents. You may wish to answer No if, for example, you are simply loading a program or a keymap as a template for use with other objects. You can also manually select only some of an object’s dependents, and then answer No to “Load dependent objects?” to prevent other unwanted dependents from being loaded.

To summarize, it is not necessary to select any of the dependents of an object if you plan on loading all of the dependents. As an example, for a file containing dozens of programs, keymaps, and samples, you may choose to highlight a certain program and press OK, and answer Yes to the “Load dependent objects?” question. The K2661 will do the rest, by only loading the samples and keymaps that are needed by the selected program.

Similarly, if you selected certain keymaps from a file, and then answered Yes to “Load dependent objects,” the K2661 would figure out exactly what samples need to be loaded as dependents of the selected keymaps.

Auditioning Samples from a Disk File

Often when working with files that contain samples it is helpful to be able to hear what the samples sound like before loading all or part of the file. It is possible to audition samples in the file, from within the Load Object dialog.

To audition a sample, first scroll to the sample that you wish to hear. Then, press either the Left or Right cursor. The K2661 will load the sample (or 1 second of it if it’s longer than a second). The audition starts from the very beginning of the sample data (note that if the first second of data is silence then you won’t hear very much when the sample is auditioned). If the loop points fall within the first second of the stored sample data, they will be loaded as well. The K2661 display will blink after the completion of loading the sample audition data. When the sample segment has been loaded, it can then be played back at its root key as well as transposed up and down the keyboard.

Once a sample has been auditioned, it remains active across the keyboard until another sample is auditioned. The audition function ends when either OK or Cancel are pressed.

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