Tutorial 2. Check the display’s upper left-hand corner to make sure that you’ve got the desired track selected— for this tutorial, you’ll use Track 1. 3. Turn the Sound Type knob to view the SoundFinder categories that are currently available. SoundFinder categories are shown in the lower-left corner of the display. (When there are no sounds in memory of a particular type, its SoundFinder category isn’t shown. ) ¶01 ROM08:000 i The currently selected SoundFinder type 4. Select the DRUM-KIT SoundFinder type. 5. Turn the Sound Name knob to view the various drum kits in the DRUM-KIT SoundFinder category. PERCSOLO:
Thump Kick ¶01 ROM10:005 DRUM-KIT:Ol’SkoolKit i As you turn the Sound Name knob, the sounds in the selected SoundFinder category are displayed 6. Select the sound HeavyDrmKit. The display provides information about the sound you’ve selected: The track you’re on The sound’s bank number The sound’s program number l m n ¶01 ROM10:002 DRUM-KIT:HeavyDrmKit i i The selected SoundFinder type The selected sound Sounds are stored in groups called banks . Each bank can contain up to 127 sounds, each of which is numbered. This system allows you to select sounds via MIDI, since each bank’s number is also its MIDI Bank Select number, and each sound’s program number is also its MIDI Program Change number.
By sending the correct MIDI Bank select and Program Change values on a track’s MIDI channel, you can select its sound from an external MIDI device. Tip: Each sound can actually be found in two SoundFinder categories: the bank in which it's stored, and in an instrument category. You can press the Track Sound button to toggle between these. In Step 1, "DEMO-SND" changed to "DRUM-KIT" on the display when we pressed Track Sound for the second time in this tutorial. Playing with the Pads Now that you’ve selected HeavyDrmKit for Track 1, why not play it?
The pads on the ASR-X are a keyboard of sorts that plays the sound you’ve chosen—it’s a percussion-oriented keyboard perfect for a groovestation like the ASR-X. Bang out a few notes to hear some of the bass drum and snare sounds in HeavyDrmKit. Since it’s a kit sound, each pad can play a different standard sound. ASR-X sounds cover the entire pitch range typical of any modern MIDI instrument. The 13 ASR-X pads play a section of a sound at a time—an octave-plus-one-note’s worth—in this case, the bass drum and snare range of HeavyDrmKit. To the left of the pads are the Octave Buttons. These are used for re-aiming the pads at different octaves within the currently selected sound.
To Change the Octave Played by the Pads 1. Locate the Octave Transpose buttons. ENSONIQ ASR-X User’s Guide 3