Section 2 — System•MIDI
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
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System•MIDI Commands
destination disk is unformatted, the display will ask ERASE AND FORMAT DISK? Press
Enter•Yes to format the disk. When formatting is complete, the drive will engage and the
display will flash WRITING DEST DISK.
• After writing to the destination disk, the display will read VERIFYING DEST DISK. If the
copy is complete, then the display will read DISK COMMAND COMPLETED.
• If the size of the source disk you are copying is greater than the amount of free internal
memory, the display will change to show INSERT SOURCE DISK again. Repeat the preceding
four steps as prompted by the ASR-10 display until the display
Note:
When a disk is copied, the Disk Label Number is copied from the source disk to the destination
disk.
COPY FLOPPY messages:
• DISK WRITE-PROTECTED — When asked for the destination disk you inserted a write-
protected disk. The destination disk must have the write-protect tab closed (so you can’t see
through the hole).
• DISK IS NOT SOURCE DISK or DISK IS NOT DESTINATION DISK — You put the wrong
disk in the drive when prompted for a certain disk. This is not fatal; it doesn’t abort the copy
procedure. Just insert the requested disk and proceed.
CMD
MIDI SYS-EX RECORDER
SYSTEM•MIDI
Press Command / System•MIDI / 9
The ASR-10 can be used to receive, store, and send MIDI System Exclusive (Sys-Ex) messages.
These Sys-Ex messages can be saved to and loaded from disk. Since the ASR-10 erases the Internal
Memory to “buffer” incoming Sys-Ex signals, you should make sure that any important data has been
saved to disk before performing this command.
The MIDI Sys-Ex recorder in the ASR-10 lets you store to disk things like:
• The program (patch) memory of any MIDI synth,
• Patterns from a drum machine,
• The sequence memory of a MIDI sequencer,
• Sample data dumps from samplers and sampling drum machines, and
• The preset memory of any MIDI effects device.
SAVING System Exclusive Data from an External Device
• Connect the MIDI Out of the sending device to the MIDI In of the ASR-10.
• Make sure that the ASR-10 O.S. disk is in the disk drive.
• Select MIDI SYS-EX RECORDER.
• Press Enter•Yes. The display reads MUST ERASE MEMORY OK?
• Press Enter•Yes. The display reads WAITING... The ASR-10 is ready to record any System
Exclusive message that it receives.
• Send the Sys-Ex data from the external device to the ASR-10. The display will flash
RECEIVING while the Sys-Ex data is being received by the ASR-10. If the Sys-Ex data have
been received successfully, the ASR-10 will display CANCEL=QUIT ENTER=SAVE.
At this point, you can send the ASR-10 another Sys-Ex message (from a different device, for
example) which will be stored right after the first one. You can save as many different messages
as memory permits in a single Sys-Ex block. Each time a message is received, the display will
flash RECEIVING and then return to CANCEL=QUIT ENTER=SAVE. When the data is later
retransmitted, all the messages will be sent out in the order they were received. In this way you
could load new data into all your devices with a single Sys-Ex Load command from the ASR-10.
