Section 12 — Sequencer and Audio Track Concepts
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
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About Audio Tracks
ASR-10’s internal memory, where the ASR-10 stores information that is to be transferred to an
external SCSI storage device). The SCSI Buffer (spooling size) is based on the amount of ASR-10
internal RAM memory that is currently available, and may be different than the amount shown
in the illustration above. Larger numbers give you a greater safety margin for writing the data
out to disk. We recommend using the largest buffer size that your system will support.
5. Press Enter•Yes, and select the SCSI ACCESS SPEED:
CMD
SYSTEM
STOP
This defaults to 3, but can be increased or decreased (using the Data Entry Controls) to match
the speed of your connected SCSI storage device. Note that setting the SCSI ACCESS SPEED
too high can have an adverse effect on sequencer timing. We recommend starting with the
default value of 3, and only increase the value if the SCSI ACCESS TOO SLOW message is
displayed.
6. Press Enter•Yes, and select the REC SCSI DRIVE=xxxx:
CMD
SYSTEM
STOP
Set this to the SCSI storage device ID number that you want to record on. This will
automatically reset Command/System•MIDI, CHANGE STORAGE DEVICE to match the
same SCSI ID number. Selecting REC SCSI DRIVE=NONE will allow playback only from the
current SCSI storage device, and will disable Audio track recording.
7. Press Enter•Yes again. The display shows:
CMD
SYSTEM
STOP
This creates or resizes the Temporary Record Files, and defines the largest size that the
AudioSample can be when recorded to the SCSI storage device.
8. Press Enter•Yes again.
The ASR-10 will now prepare the SCSI storage device for recording DiskTracks. The display
will show PREPARING SCSI DEVICE (if it needs to access the SCSI device for anything),
followed by COMMAND COMPLETED, and then you will be returned to the CONFIGURE
AUDIO TRACKS command page.
Note: RAM AudioSamples can still be played back along with SCSI AudioSamples when ATRK
PLAY/REC=SCSI.