Section 4 — Instrument, Bank, and Preset Parameters
Command/Instrument Page
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CMD
SAVE INSTRUMENT
INST
Press Command / Instrument / 3
Use this command to save the selected instrument to floppy disk (or to a SCSI device). This is
important because the ASR-10 does not save any Instruments, Banks, Presets or Sequence/Songs
internally — if you were to power down, you would loose any unsaved information.
• Insert a formatted disk into the drive. If you don’t have a formatted disk, format one before
proceeding.
• 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.
• 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 cursor. 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 flash 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).
CMD
SAVE BANK
INST
Press Command / Instrument / 4
Use this command to save the current Bank. 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
It’s easy to save the contents of the ASR-10 memory as a bank. Just remember that any
instruments in the internal memory, as well as the song, must be saved separately before they can
be saved as a bank.
• Save any instruments in memory to disk using the SAVE INSTRUMENT command.
• Save the song to disk (if you want a song as part of the bank) using the SAVE SONG + ALL
