Section 1 — Controls and Architecture ASR-10 Musician’s Manual Front Panel Controls Almost everything you do on the ASR-10 — whether it’s selecting a sound, editing that sound, adjusting the tuning, etc. — is controlled from the front panel using the following controls: Instrument Env 1 Env 2 Env 3 Load 1 2 3 (Select Preset) Command Seq•Song Pitch Filters Amp System•MIDI LFO 4 Wave Layer 5 6 (Create Preset) Edit (Directory) 7 8 9 Effects Track Enter Cancel Volume Data Entry 1 2 3 4 0 Yes No 1) Volume Slider This controls the overall volume of the ASR-10 audio outputs. 2) Mode Buttons These three buttons are the key to finding your way around the ASR-10.
The ASR-10 is always in one of these three Modes — LOAD, COMMAND, or EDIT. The current mode is selected by pressing the appropriate mode button. The highlighted word in the upper left corner of the display tells you which is the current mode. LOAD mode is the one you will be in most often — since the ASR-10 lets you continue playing while loading sounds and sequences, LOAD mode also doubles as the “Performance” mode. When the LOAD indicator is flashing, the display is showing you disk files for loading. When the LOAD indicator is lit but not flashing, the display is showing you the name(s) of the instruments in the Internal Memory. Tip:
In flashing LOAD mode (when the LOAD indicator is flashing), successive presses of the Instrument , Seq•Song , System•MIDI , or Effects buttons will scroll through the available files of that type on the selected storage device. COMMAND mode is used to execute a wide variety of commands, such as: saving instruments, banks, and sequences to disk; copying instruments, layers, and WaveSamples from one internal location to another; creating and modifying sequences and songs; and manipulating WaveSamples and their loops in various ways... just to name a few. Tip: In COMMAND mode, successive presses of each of the 14 page buttons will scroll through the Command screens, one at a time.
EDIT mode is used to select and modify a great many variables — or parameters — ranging from the volume of a WaveSample, to the velocity response of the instrument, to the MIDI In Mode. Edit mode is also the mode in which all sequence recording and mixing is done. Tip: In EDIT mode, successive presses of each of the 14 page buttons will scroll through the Edit screens, one at a time. 6 Front Panel Controls