Section 14 — Storage
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
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Loading Instruments and Banks
Saving the Contents of Memory as a Bank
Saving a bank is like taking a “snapshot” of the contents of the ASR-10 memory. When you later
load a bank, the ASR-10 “looks” at that snapshot and tries to recreate what was in memory when
the bank was saved. You can use banks to automatically load a new group of instruments and/or
a new song.
Banks are valuable for this reason: ASR-10 songs and sequences have no way of knowing which
instruments are loaded into various Instrument•Sequence Track locations. Suppose, for
example, you record a track with a piano instrument, but then load a kazoo sample into the
instrument location where the piano was. The track will now play on the kazoo. By using banks
you load instruments into their “proper” location. The Bank file stores the following information:
• Which instruments are loaded into each Instrument•Sequence Track location
• Which song and its related sequences are loaded into the internal memory
• Up to eight discrete Performance Presets
• The Bank Effect and its parameter settings
• The Edit/Track MIX, PAN, OUT, and EFFECT MOD CONTROL setting for each
Instrument•Sequence Track
It’s easy to save the contents of the ASR-10 memory as a bank. Just remember that any
instruments in the internal memory, as well as the song, must be saved separately before they can
be saved as a bank.
• Save any instruments in memory to disk using the SAVE INSTRUMENT command on the
Command/Instrument page.
• Save the song to disk (if you want a song as part of the bank) using the SAVE SONG + ALL
SEQS command on the Command/Seq•Song page.
• Press Command, then Instrument.
• Press the Left or Right Arrow button until the display reads SAVE BANK.
• Press Enter•Yes. The display shows:
CMD
STOP
INST
The display shows the current name with a cursor (underline) beneath the first character. If you
want to give the bank a new name, do so at this time. Use the Data Entry Slider or the Up/Down
Arrow buttons to change the underlined character, then press the Left or Right Arrow button to
move the underline. Repeat until the display shows the name you want. (If you are updating an
existing bank, don’t rename the bank; just press Enter•Yes and then press Enter•Yes once more
in response to the question DELETE OLD VERSION?).
• Press Enter•Yes.
Note:
It’s not necessary for the instruments and song to be saved on the same disk as the bank. Each
instrument, the song, and bank can be saved on separate disks, but make sure the disks are
labelled (WRITE DISK LABEL command found on Command/System•MIDI page) so that the
bank can locate the information properly.
