Tutorial 5. If necessary, turn the Parameter knob until the display shows: Disk Utilities Format floppy disk? 6. Press the Yes button. 7. The ASR-X asks you to again if you want to format the disk, since doing so will permanently erase any files currently on the disk. 8. Press the Yes button if you’re prepared to format the floppy. The formatting process takes a minute or so. When the ASR-X is finished formatting the disk, the ASR-X will briefly display “Format successful!” If there’s a problem with the floppy, the ASR-X will display a message telling you so. Saving an ALL-SESSION File 1. Locate and press the Disk/Global Save button. Load Save System MIDI All No tes Off Save All 2.
If necessary, turn the Parameter knob until the display shows: Save to disk? ALL-SESSION:SESSION i i The type of file to be saved The name of the file to be saved By turning the Parameter knob you can select the different types of file that can be saved to disk. For this tutorial, you want to save an ALL-SESSION file, as shown. Tip: There’s a faster way to jump to this Save ALL-SESSION display: simply double-click the Disk/Global Save button. We’ve used the longer method in Steps 1 and 2 to help you become familiar with the procedure for saving files of all types. You can assign an eight-character name for your ALL-SESSION file.
Each of the eight character positions can be selected—it will be underlined—and the desired character dialed in. Let’s name this file “MYFIRST” to get a sense of how files are named. Since the first “S” in “SESSION” is already underlined, it’s selected for editing. 3. Turn the Value knob to dial in an “M” as the ALL-SESSION file name’s first character. 4. Press the right-hand Select Track button to underline—and select—the second character position for editing. 5. Turn the Value knob to dial in a “Y.” 6. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 until you’ve named the file. 7. When you’re done, press the Yes button. Saving an ALL-SESSION file can take a few minutes, since it’s saving so many things.
In our tutorial, it’s saving the following separate files. It’s saving: all of the sounds you created in RAM—DanceKit_01, SMPL1, SMPL1_01, SMPL1_02 and SMPL1_03. the waves you sampled. the current System/MIDI setup. a sequence bank containing your sequence. ENSONIQ ASR-X User’s Guide 19 Disk / Global