Programming instructions

Section 3 — Instrument, Bank, and Preset Concepts ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
4 About Instruments and Banks
instructions telling the ASR-10 what to load and where to load it. All the instruments and the
song in a Bank must be saved to disk separately (or loaded in from a disk with a proper Disk
Label ID) prior to saving the Bank.
• Any instruments already loaded into locations not affected by the Bank will be left intact
(memory permitting). You can select and play such instruments while the Bank loads. Also,
any instruments included in the Bank that are already in memory will be left there and not
reloaded, even if they are in different Instrument•Sequence Track locations in the new Bank.
In such a case the ASR-10 will simply move the instrument to the new location.
• The instrument and song files referred to by a Bank can be on many different disks. Each time
you load an Instrument or Song, the ASR-10 “remembers” what disk it was loaded from.
When you load a Bank file, the ASR-10 will ask by name for any disks it needs to load the files
included in the Bank. This is why it is very important that you give each of your disks a
unique name (Disk Label ID) and write that name on the disk itself.
• If there was a song in memory when the Bank was saved, the ASR-10 will automatically load
the song as part of the Bank. If you want the Bank to load without a song, erase the contents
of the sequencer memory before saving the Bank to disk.
To Load a Bank
• Press Load, then Instrument.
• Use the Up/Down Arrow buttons to view the different files.
FILE 4 SOUND BANK 1
LOAD INST STOP
BANK
When a Bank file is showing, the BANK indicator lights on the display along with the INST
indicator.
• Once a Bank file is showing, press Enter•Yes. The ASR-10 will begin loading the instruments
and the song data. As it loads each instrument the display tells you what it’s doing. As soon
as any of the instruments are finished loading, you can select that instrument and play while
the rest of the Bank loads.
At some point in the loading process, you may encounter the following message:
LOAD INST STOP
BANK
INSERT <DISK NAME>-ENTER
This prompt is informing you that an instrument or song saved as part of the Bank is on a
different disk than the disk currently in the drive. When this occurs:
• Eject the current disk in the disk drive and replace it with the disk that matches the Disk Label
ID requested by the ASR-10 (you are writing these names on your disks, aren’t you?).
• Press Enter•Yes. The ASR-10 will resume loading until completed, or until the point when it
needs another disk.
• When it has finished loading the instruments, the ASR-10 will load the song (if any) and then
set up any copied instruments included in the Bank.