Section 7 — Sampling/Signal Source Concepts
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
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Sampling Over an Existing Sample
• Play the sound to be sampled; play the synth, start the recording, or speak into the
microphone.
• Press Cancel•No or press the Left Foot Switch to stop sampling. If you don’t stop it by
pressing Cancel•No or the foot switch, the ASR-10 will continue sampling until it has used up
all the available memory.
After you have stopped sampling (or the memory is full), the display flashes PLAY ROOT KEY
OR ENTER. The Root Key is the note on the ASR-10 keyboard from which the sample will play
back at “unity” (the same pitch as the original input signal). Whichever key you press in
response to the PLAY ROOT KEY OR ENTER prompt is the key that will play back exactly what
you sampled. The samples you’ve just created are stored in companion layers.
Tip:
You can also press the Enter•Yes button in response to the PLAY ROOT KEY OR ENTER
prompt. This assigns C4 as the root key, and allows you to record samples without using the
keyboard. Remember, you can assign different WaveSample ranges and change the pitch using
the Edit/Instrument parameters.
Companion Layers
Stereo Samples are stored in pairs of adjacent Layers (1&2, 3&4, 5&6, or 7&8), with the LEFT
channel always stored in an odd numbered Layers (1, 3, 5 or 7), and the RIGHT channel stored
across the same Key-Range in the next higher even numbered Layer. These are called companion
layers.
The Edit/Layer parameter STEREO LAYER LINK=xxx is automatically set to ON after a Stereo
Sample is recorded. When this parameter is turned ON in the selected Layer, it is simultaneously
turned ON in the companion layer. When STEREO LAYER LINK=ON, simultaneous editing of
both channels of a Stereo Sample is enabled (see below).
STEREO LAYER LINK=ON
EDIT
LAYER
The Stereo Layer Link parameter is located at Edit/Layer screen address “99”, and can be quickly
accessed by double-clicking the Layer button after pressing the Edit button.
• When STEREO LAYER LINK=ON, editing Layer or WaveSample parameters in one layer will
edit the same parameters in the companion layer. Editing with the Data Entry Slider will set
the current parameter in both layers to the same absolute value. Editing with the Up/Down
Arrow buttons will edit parameter values in both layers relative to one another.
• When STEREO LAYER LINK=OFF, you can independently edit layers that contain one
channel of a Stereo Sample.
• If the companion layer does not exist, STEREO LAYER LINK cannot be turned ON in the
Selected Layer.