Section 14 — Storage
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
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Loading Instruments and Banks
If You Run Out of System Memory
You might have to delete an instrument(s) before loading the new one. If there are already one or
more instruments loaded into the ASR-10, there might not be enough free memory to load the
new one. In this case, the display will say PICK INST TO DELETE. At this point you can:
• Press any loaded Instrument•Sequence Track button. That instrument will be deleted from
memory and the new one will be loaded; or,
• Press Enter•Yes. The ASR-10 will delete an instrument (or instruments, as needed) for you,
starting from the highest-numbered one in memory; or,
• Press Cancel•No. The load command will be canceled with no harm done.
Note:
You can continue to select and play existing instruments while the new one loads. No more
“down-time” waiting for the next sound to load. With the ASR-10, you can be loading the next
sound you need while continuing to play the currently selected sound.
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).
