Section 1 — Controls and Architecture
About Instruments
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About Instruments
We refer to ASR-10 sounds as Instruments. A grand piano, an electric bass, a multi-sampled drum
set, a complete string section — each of these would be an example of an instrument. You can
load up to eight instruments into the ASR-10, memory permitting, and have instant access to any
or all of them.
Each instrument contains four different Patches that are selected with the Patch Select buttons.
These patches allow a single instrument to have four different inflections, voicings, tunings, or
synth-type program variations all available at the press of a button.
An instrument can be any size (within the limits of memory) — one instrument might consist of a
single WaveSample that plays over the entire keyboard, while another might have as many 127
different WaveSamples.
For controlling remote devices, you can create an instrument that contains no samples at all and
assign it to play only out MIDI, on a particular MIDI Channel.
Loading an Instrument
You can load up to eight different instruments into the ASR-10 at once (within the limits of
memory). First, insert a disk containing one or more instrument files into the disk drive.
• Press Load. The LOAD indicator flashes.
• Press Instrument. The display looks like this:
LOAD
INST
STOP
When the LOAD indicator is flashing, the ASR-10 is showing you disk files (think of it as a
question mark — the ASR-10 is saying “Load the file showing on the display?”). Pressing the
Up/Down Arrow buttons takes you through the files on the disk. If there are none, the display
will read “NO INST OR BANK FILES.”
Whenever a disk file is displayed as above, you can press the Left or Right Arrow button to see
the size of that file in Blocks (a Block is 256 samples; 4 Blocks=1K sample words). Press the Left
or Right Arrow button again to return to the file name.
• Use the Data Entry Slider or the Up/Down Arrow buttons to view the various instrument files
on the disk. Each file has its own File Number. When an instrument file is showing, the INST
indicator is lit. The BANK Indicator will light when a bank file is showing.
• Find the instrument you want to load, and press Enter•Yes. The display will say PICK
INSTRUMENT BUTTON. The ASR-10 is asking in which instrument location you want to
load the sound into.
• Press any of the eight Instrument•Sequence Track buttons. The ASR-10 will begin
immediately loading the instrument into the selected location. The display reads LOADING
FILE… and the left red LED flashes while the instrument is being loaded.
