K2000 v3.87 New Features & Enhancements K2000 v3.87 New Features & Enhancements

1) SCSI Speed Improvements. Now loads and saves approximately twice as fast as previous versions.

2) Exports to Standard MIDI Type 1.
Now the software can import and export both Type 0 and Type 1 Standard MIDI files.

3) ISO 9660 format support:
Adds ISO 9660 format support for CD’s. This allows you to read CDs in the standard PC/Mac format. Previously, we required an “image” of the hard disk format.
ISO9660 support key points:
a) Backup, Copy, and Macro all support this new format.
b) The software supports CD-ROM XA (Mode 2) as well as CD-ROM (Mode 1)
c) The software supports multi-session CDs, but some older CD-ROM
drives may not support multi-session. In this case you will only see the first session.
d) File naming conventions that work: ISO 9660 Level 1, MS DOS, and Joliet.
e) Do not select “Use Macintosh extensions” when making ISO 9660 CDs. We may be able to fix this in the future, but for now it does not work with our system.
f) Do not select “Append version numbers” when making ISO 9660 CDs.
g) The maximum “path-length” (total file name, including directory names and slashes) is 64 characters, which means that files in highly nested directories may not be loadable.
h) Unicode characters do not display correctly.

4) Supports looped .WAV files, both importing and exporting. Also correctly handles tuning of .WAV and .AIFF files. Saving a .WAV file will now export the loop info, if any. Importing a
looped .WAV file will now get the loop data, if any. The software only handles one loop per sample, so the first loop found in a .WAV file is
used. The sample tuning now works correctly.

5) Now reads K2500 programs. Previously the K2000 would ignore Programs containing K2500 specific parameters. Now it translates them, stripping out any KDFX or other K2500 specific parameters.

6) Improved Object save and delete times. No more “Please wait…” messages every time you edit and save a Program.

7) Improved Sample delete times. Again, shorter “Please wait…” times.

8) Bugs fixed:
a) Fixes problem where certain SCSI drives would be very slow.
b) Fixes “Keep” bug in song mode, where keep function would sometimes freeze.
c) Fixes Local On/Off problem over MIDI. Cakewalk and some other
sequencers send a MIDI Local Off message, which was being handled incorrectly.
d) Reverses the sense of the MIDI Portamento Time control (CC#5), to meet the MIDI spec.
e) Fixes a problem with certain Akai CDs where the samples have a
playback rate set to zero.
g) Fixes a SMDI problem when Live Mode is on.

Plus a number of other bugs are fixed as well.

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