Section 1 — Controls and Architecture
About Banks
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About Banks
Banks provide a way to load a whole group of instruments and sequences into the ASR-10 with a
few button presses. When you save a bank to disk, it is like taking a “snapshot” of the contents of
the ASR-10 Internal memory — the bank file contains information about which instruments are
loaded into which of the eight Instrument•Sequence Track locations, and which song and
sequences (if any) are currently loaded in Internal Memory. When you load a bank, the ASR-10
will set up Internal Memory in the same state it was in when you saved the bank file, loading
those instruments into the same locations and, if you choose, loading the song with its related
sequences. A bank will also save any Performance Presets you have created.
For example, you might have a piano loaded into Instrument•Sequence Track 1, a bass in
Instrument•Sequence Track 2, and drums in Instrument•Sequence Track 3, and you have
created a number of Performance Presets containing different keyboard configurations of those
instruments. Let’s say you also have in memory a song, which is composed of 12 sequences. If
you now save the contents of memory as a bank, you can later call up this exact setup by loading
the bank.
The bank file on a disk doesn’t contain the actual instrument and sequence files — it is just a set
of instructions telling the ASR-10 what files to load and where to load them. All the instruments
and the song in a bank must be saved to disk individually before saving the bank.
Note:
Any instruments already loaded into locations not used by the bank will be left intact (memory
permitting). You can select and play such instruments while the bank loads.
To Load a Bank
• Press Load, then Instrument.
• Use the Up/Down Arrow buttons to view the different files.
FILE 4 SOUND BANK 1
LOAD
INST
STOP
BANK
When a bank file is showing, the BANK indicator lights on the display along with the INST
indicator.
• Once a bank file is showing, press Enter•Yes. The ASR-10 will begin loading the instruments
and the song data. As it loads each instrument the display tells you what it’s doing. As soon
as any of the instruments are finished loading, you can select that instrument and play while
the rest of the bank loads.
At some point in the loading process, you may encounter the following message:
INSERT <DISK NAME>-ENTER
INST
STOP
BANK
L O A D
This prompt is informing you that an instrument or song saved as part of the bank is on a
different disk than the disk currently in the drive. When this occurs:
• Eject the current disk in the disk drive and replace it with the disk that matches the Disk Label
ID requested by the ASR-10.
