Section 1 — Controls and Architecture
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
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Performance Controllers
Performance Controllers
The ASR-10 features a number of real-time performance controllers that can modify sounds as you
play for maximum expressiveness. Three of the most important controllers are located to the left
of the keyboard:
Pitch Bend
Wheel
Modulation
Wheel
Patch Select
Buttons
• PATCH SELECT BUTTONS — These two buttons are used to select alternate groups of voices
(called Layers) within a sound. The ASR-10 can be programmed so that the sound changes
(sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes radically) when you play notes with one or both Patch
Select buttons held down As you play instruments on the ASR-10, make sure you explore
what these buttons do to each sound.
• PITCH BEND WHEEL — This wheel bends the pitch of a note up or down. The wheel is
normally centered, where it has no effect on the pitch — moving the wheel up or down will
bend the note by the amount specified in the Bend Range parameters contained on the
Edit/System•MIDI page (for GLOBAL BEND RANGE) and on the Edit/Pitch page (for an
individual WaveSample’s BEND RANGE).
• MODULATION WHEEL — Perhaps the most common use of the Mod Wheel is to add
vibrato, but it can also be assigned as a modulator anywhere within the ASR-10 voice
architecture to alter the pitch, brightness, volume and a great many other aspects of the sound.
