Alesis K2661 specifications OvFillOverwrtMergeAppendFillCancel, 13-20

Basic Disk Mode

Load Function Dialog

You will see the following dialog if the bank contains any objects (in RAM or ROM):

200...299*

300...399

Loadthisfileas:400...499*

500...599

600...699

700...799

OvFillOverwrtMergeAppendFillCancel

The soft buttons control the mode for loading and renumbering of objects from the file. Here’s how they work:

OvFill	First deletes all RAM objects in the selected bank, and then loads objects using
	consecutive numbering.
Overwrt	First deletes all RAM objects in the selected bank, and then loads objects using the
	object ID numbers stored in the file.
Merge	Preserve the object ID numbers stored in the file for the objects to be loaded,
	overwrite objects already in memory if necessary.
Append	Try to use the object ID numbers stored in the file for the objects to be loaded. If an
	ID number is already in use, increment the ID number until a free slot is found.
Fill	Ignore the object ID numbers stored in the file. Try to use consecutive numbering
	from the beginning of the selected bank. If an ID number is already in use,
	increment the ID number until a free slot is found.
Cancel	Cancel the mode selection, and go back to choosing a bank. Scrolling to a different
	bank value will have the same effect as Cancel.

Typically, you will just want to use the Fill method. Append, Merge, and Overwrt try to preserve the numbers stored with the objects in the file, but this should only really be necessary if you depend on program numbers or effect numbers to be at a certain MIDI program change number. OvFill is like Fill except the selected bank (or Everything) is cleared out before loading.

Overwrt and OvFill operate in different ways after a selected bank has been filled up for a given object type (for example, after you have loaded more than 100 programs into a bank). Overwrt will continue to preserve the objectIDs stored in the file, and will individually overwrite objects in the bank following the just filled bank. OvFill does not overwrite past the end of the selected bank; it instead skips over object IDs that are in use, loading only into unused IDs. Because of this difference, it can sometimes be faster to load a file using OvFill rather than Overwrt. However, this applies only if the objects to be loaded would extend past the end of a selected bank.

Note that when loading into a specific bank (as opposed to loading as “Everything”), the object IDs in the file are used as follows: The “bank” digit is ignored, and the remainder of the number is used when the K2661 rebanks the object ID into the bank that you specify. For example, if you save Program 453 into a file, and load it back into the 300s bank, the K2661 will use the number 53 when deciding upon a new object ID. If the 300s bank was previously empty, and the load mode is Append, then the program will end up with ID 353.

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