Ensoniq ASR-10 help, for ASRonians.

drunkmonkey5556 wrote:awesome. thanks. about the note thing at the end, what do you mean? i'd have to make a copy of the data in this case, to change the params, but what else are you saying, when wouldn't i need to make a copy?
thanks though, i get it now.

No what I'm saying is that you DONT have to copy the data just to chop out the kick and snare... the only time you need to copy the data is when you wanna edit the data itself (like normalizing, fade in/fade out, truncate, crossfade looping etc.).

But anyway, its not important right now. Just stick to PARAMS ONLY and get the basics down. I'm doing the same... But I have the advantage of already being familiar with the ASR-X...

Matter of fact, speaking of the ASR-X, that's the main thing it has over the 10 is that you don't have to worry about changing the keyrange and root key every time you copy a sample. And you can also select the sample you wanna edit by just tapping the pad. That's what's slowing me down with editing right now, but I'm sure I'll get used to it...

But the advantage of the 10 is that you can do a LOT more with a sample. A LOT more...

im just quoting this so it doesnt get lost on the page before. its my biggest problem right now

drunkmonkey5556 wrote:my other thing is that i made a sequence (i sampled the kick and snare separately and gave them their own root keys) and after recording for about 3 bars, it said "OUT OF MEMORY" i was like.... ... can someone explain what i did wrong? all i had was a kick and a snare, both truncated, and a 3 bar sequence with the kicks on the 1's and 3's and snares on 2's and 4's... so basically the simplest thing ever. while blockhead is making complex layered masterpieces on the same machine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvoQOAWiPow

mp3 wrote:I'm trying to format a new zip disk, and I'm not seeing the CMD->SYSTEM/MIDI->'FORMAT SCSI DRIVE' command

Sounds like the built in Fail safe.

Are you booting with the flopyy in the drive and the OS on the floppy?

If you boot the OS from SCSI you will not be able to format a new SCSI drive.

My advice would be to Format new SCSI devices not with the ASR-10 itself but with Translator Free - much faster

mp3 wrote:But anyway, is there any way I can verify what version of the OS I'm running?

After booting, COMMAND > ENV 1 > SFOTWARE INFORMATION > RAM VERSION = X.X

DukeNewport wrote:

mp3 wrote:I'm trying to format a new zip disk, and I'm not seeing the CMD->SYSTEM/MIDI->'FORMAT SCSI DRIVE' command

Sounds like the built in Fail safe.

Are you booting with the flopyy in the drive and the OS on the floppy?

If you boot the OS from SCSI you will not be able to format a new SCSI drive.

Tried both.

DukeNewport wrote:My advice would be to Format new SCSI devices not with the ASR-10 itself but with Translator Free - much faster

Don't have a PC. Or a USB Zip. Or a SCSI adapter card for that matter...

mp3 wrote:

DukeNewport wrote:

mp3 wrote:I'm trying to format a new zip disk, and I'm not seeing the CMD->SYSTEM/MIDI->'FORMAT SCSI DRIVE' command

Are you booting with the flopyy in the drive and the OS on the floppy?

Tried both.

Try again.

Seriously. Im not tryna be a dik. If you can't find this command you have a MAJOR problem on ur hands.

Floppy's only is no way to live in 2010

"sigh" i live on floppys only in 2010

edit: drunkmonkey how much ram does your asr have and do you copy the actual sample or just copy parameters?

boxcutter butta wrote:"sigh" i live on floppys only in 2010

edit: drunkmonkey how much ram does your asr have and do you copy the actual sample or just copy parameters?

it has however much came with it.. and i guess i copied the actual sample.. but would that even matter? it was only 1 short drum sample, shouldn't i be able to have much more than that?

well try it again with the copy parameter

cmd>wav>copy sample> go to the right over 2 i think your options should be parameters and data or parameters only you want parameters only
make sure you truncate before doing this
it shouldnt be a limited ram problem

it only happens when i'm recording a sequence.. after a little while it just says its out of memory..

i just had an idea, is it possible that while recording the sequence, i'm recording from the "dry" input of the asr as well as the main out? or something like that? because i remember later changing the recording settings or something to "main out" and it all sounded different (much quieter)... this might not make sense but i'm just trying to figure this out

ive never suffered that problem but i came from eps 16 background so i knew about the asr before i had the asr.
see how many block your sample is after you sample your drum break and chop it. it shouldnt be very big maybe 80 blocks if its just a 8 second mono

now are you recording in stereo or mono? may i suggest trying mono first

recording in mono, after the drum was truncated it was like .2 seconds long

so i went to my asr took out all but one of my 2mb ram chips and tried to recreate your problems. i couldnt do it. i even tried samples i never had the problem im sorry drunk i cant help

Drunk

I suspect you may have considerably less than the 16 Mb maximum in your unit.
Switch on your ASR and while its booting go to your pdf and look up 'BLOCKS' as I believe there is a table there that tells you how much memory you have in your ASR depending on the amount of free blocks you have available (before loading any instruments / sequences).
I think about 34,000 blocks free corresponds to 16 mb but again cannot remember exactly.

You will need the 16 mb more than scsi drives or digital outs in my opinion. So find out how much memory you have first of all.

Regarding your other point - I don't think the ASR can sample from both the MAIN OUT and the DRY INPUT at the same time - even if you wanted it to.

EDIT - Check page 14 in the 'About Memory section' the table is there. Don't feel too bad if you don't have too much memory as ASR memory is relatively cheap.