Section 3 — Instrument, Bank, & Preset Concepts
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This section offers a basic overview of the concepts involved in selecting, creating, editing, and
understanding Instruments, Banks and Performance Presets. For more detailed descriptions of
the actual parameters, refer to the following section.
Instruments
The ASR-10 keeps all its sounds in a format called an Instrument. This format is used for all disk
storage. The internal structure of an Instrument has three levels: Instrument, Layer, and
WaveSample. Up to 127 WaveSamples are grouped together into layers, and there can be up to
eight layers in the instrument. Their relationship is shown in the following diagram:
An Instrument
Instrument
parameters
A Layer
Layer
parameters
WS parameters
A WaveSample
wave data
At the instrument level, there are parameters that affect the whole instrument: for example the
MIDI functions and the patch select settings. These parameters are found on the Edit/Instrument
page. Parameters that affect each layer are found on the Edit/Layer page. Each distinct area of
WaveSample editing (i.e. Pitch, Filter, Amp) has its own Edit page.