Section 3 — Instrument, Bank, and Preset Concepts
About Instruments and Banks
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Saving an Instrument to Disk
After you have created a new ASR-10 instrument, or made changes to an existing instrument,
you can save the instrument to a formatted ASR-10 disk with the following steps:
• Insert a formatted disk into the drive. If you don’t have a formatted disk, format one before
proceeding.
• Press Command, then Instrument. This puts you on the Command/Instrument page, that
contains all the instrument-related commands. Check to make sure that the instrument you
want to save is selected. If not, press its Instrument•Sequence Track button to select it.
• Press the Left or Right Arrow button until the display reads SAVE INSTRUMENT (or use this
shortcut — after pressing Command, double-click on the Instrument button).
• Press Enter•Yes.
• Edit the Instrument Name (if needed):
INST
STOP
CMD
The display shows the current name with a cursor (underline) beneath the first character. If you
want to give the instrument a new name, do so at this time. Use the Data Entry Slider or the
Up/Down Arrow buttons to change the underlined character, then press the Left or Right Arrow
button to move the underline. Repeat until the display shows the name you want (if you don’t
need to rename the instrument, just skip this step).
• Press Enter•Yes.
The display will read SAVING <INST NAME> while the instrument is being saved. Note that
you can continue playing the keyboard while the instrument is being saved, and you can
select other instruments. You cannot get out of COMMAND mode until the save procedure is
done.
• If there is already an instrument file with the same name on the disk, the display will ask
DELETE OLD VERSION? Press Enter•Yes to save the instrument, replacing the one on the
disk. This is for updating instruments to which you have made changes. Or press Cancel•No
to abort the procedure.
• If there is not enough free space on the disk for the instrument, the display will say NOT
ENOUGH DISK SPACE. Save the instrument to another disk (or delete some files from the
disk).
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 stores the following information:
• Which instruments are loaded into each Instrument•Sequence Track location
• Which song and its related sequences are loaded into the internal memory
• Up to eight discrete Performance Presets
• The Bank Effect and its parameter settings
• The Edit/Track MIX, PAN, OUT, and EFFECT MOD CONTROL setting for each
Instrument•Sequence Track
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 a song in memory, that 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.
Important Notes About Banks
• The Bank file on a disk doesn’t contain the actual instrument and song files — it is just a set of
