Tutorial Saving Your Music to a Floppy Disk The ASR-X’s floppy disk drive provides a convenient way to save your work. The floppy drive can write and read files to and from standard 3.5” high-density or 3.5” double-density floppy disks. Since the ASR- X uses a DOS-based format, its floppy disks can be read by any Macintosh or PC-compatible computer. ASR-X sequences are saved to floppy as Standard MIDI Files that can be played by any sequencer or sequencing program that can accommodate SMFs. ASR-X waves are saved to disk as AIF files so that they can be edited by most major sound-editing programs. The easiest way to save your ASR-X music is to save an ALL-SESSION file.
ALL-SESSION files save all of the sounds and waves in RAM and all of your sequences—they even save your System/MIDI, Resampling Setup and sequencer Click settings. ASR-X disk operations are described in detail in Chapter 7 of the ASR-X Reference Manual. Before you can save anything to floppy, the disk must be formatted. You can format the floppy on a computer or, if you’re using a high-density disk, on the ASR-X. Note: Note: Note: Note: In order to be formatted or written to, a floppy must not be write-protected. The sliding window on its lower edge should be in the closed position. Formatting a Floppy 1.
Insert a fresh 3/5” high-density floppy disk into the ASR-X disk drive label-side up, as shown: Shutter Position the floppy so that its shutter looks like this. As you insert the disk into the drive’s slot, stop pushing it in when it’s seated in the drive mechanism—you can usually feel when this occurs. 2. Locate and press the System/MIDI button. Load Save System MIDI All No tes Off Save All 3. Turn the Parameter knob until the display shows: System/MIDI Access disk utils? 4. Press the Yes button. The ASR-X takes a few moments to load the floppy’s directory. 18 ENSONIQ ASR-X User’s Guide Floppy drive slo Disk / Global