Section 12 — Sequencer and Audio Track Concepts
Song Mode
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Song Mode
The ASR-10’s Song mode allows you to chain individual sequences together to form a song.
Since each sequence has a fixed length, tempo, and time signature, you can use the Song mode to
create works with tempo and time signature changes. However, Song mode on the ASR-10 lets
you do much more than just play sequences in order.
First, for each step of the song you can selectively mute or transpose any of the tracks in the
sequence. And second…
You can record in song mode. An ASR-10 song offers you another set of 8 tracks, called song tracks,
which let you record over the entire length of the song. The information recorded in these song
tracks is separate from information in the tracks of the individual sequences which comprise the
song. However, each song track does “share” an instrument with the same-numbered sequence
track. The following are a few things to remember about ASR-10 song mode:
• There is only one song in the ASR-10 at a time. Whenever the song is selected, (as opposed to
one of the sequences) the SONG indicator lights on the display:
Indicates that the
Song is selected
EDIT
SEQ
STOP
SONG
The SONG indicator remains lit as long as the song is selected, no matter what mode the ASR-10
is in or page it is on. Whenever the SONG indicator is not lit, an individual sequence is selected.
• You select the song in the same way that you select sequences, on the Edit/Seq•Song page
(press Edit, then double-click on Seq•Song).
• Songs are composed of steps. For each step of the song, you define:
• Which sequence will play during that step;
• The number of repetitions (REP) – how many times the sequence will play during the step;
• The status (Play, Mute, or Transpose) of each track of the sequence during the step; and
• The transpose amount, which determines how far any transposed tracks in that step will
be shifted up or down in pitch.
A song can contain as many as 99 steps, with up to 63 repetitions of each step.
• Putting together an ASR-10 song involves the following steps:
• Record (or load from disk) the various sequences that you want to combine to form the song.
• Construct the song, using the Edit SONG STEPS command on the Command/Seq•Song
page (see below).
• Record any song tracks.
• Save the song (along with its component sequences) using the SAVE SONG + ALL SEQS
command on the Command/Seq•Song page.
• As a final step, it’s always a good idea to save the contents of memory as a bank, so that
you can later load the song and load all the instruments into the proper locations, just by
loading the bank.