Section 5 — Effect Concepts
Selecting Effects
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Sample Rate
Each Effect has a defined number of voices that it can play, based on its sample rate. To view the
current sample rate, from the FX Select screen, press the Left Arrow button. The display shows:
31 VOICES AT 30 KHZ
LOAD
INST
Pressing the Right Arrow button will return you to the FX Select screen.
Note:
Changing the Effect could change the sample rate that will be viewed in sample mode. A lower
sample rate gives you a longer sample time, because it takes fewer samples per second. A higher
sample rate allows you to sample with increased fidelity (because it takes more samples per
second). Changing the sample rate also affects the polyphony:
If the sample rate is…
then polyphony is…
and the sample time is…
30 kHz
31 voices
longer
44 kHz
23 voices
shorter
Note:
When the optional DI-10 Digital Interface is installed, the Digital Output will provide digital
audio output of the Main Output mix, if the current effect uses a 44.1 KHz sample rate
Instruments and Banks
The complete effects setup, including the values of all effect parameters, is saved when you save
an instrument. It is also saved with each bank. The ASR-10 is smart about switching effects, since
all sound must stop for an instant when it changes effects.
When are New Effects Loaded Into the ESP chip?
• When you select an instrument from one of the Instrument•Sequence Track buttons with
FX=INST on the FX Select/FX Bypass page, the effect saved in that instrument will be loaded
into the ESP, and you will hear the sound with its associated effect.
• When you load a new Bank, a new Bank Effect is loaded into the ESP.
• When you load an individual effect (one that is not part of a Bank or an Instrument), it is
loaded into the ESP and becomes the new Bank Effect.
• When you select or layer instrument/tracks with FX=BANK or FX=ROM on the FX Select/FX
Bypass page, the effect is not changed.
Whenever a new effect is loaded into the ESP, the audio output will pause briefly, allowing the
instructions that create the new effect algorithm to be loaded into the ESP. If an effect differs only
by variation in parameter values, then this pause will not occur.
