User manual ENSONIQ ASR-X PRO GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] ASR-X / X Pro Getting Started Guide Written by Eric Montgomery©2000 Getting Started The first thing most people want to do when they get a new piece of gear is to "do it all". They want to start writing songs, sampling and doing performances. My advice is to take your time and get to know the new product first. By the time you finish this manual you will have the basic idea of how to sequence, sample, load and save data to disk. [. . . ] I also want to answer the question, "Why would I want to use a SCSI Hard drive?" First, what is a SCSI Hard drive?SCSI is an acronym for Small Computer Systems Interface. Yep, your ASR-X/X Pro is a small hardware based computer. Similar, to a Mac or a Windows computer, it uses RAM memory and has similar components. Your computer runs on the OS (MacOS or Windows) it has installed. Your ASR has its own OS installed into ROM (Read ONLY Memory) chips. Computers have hard drives built into the case. You ASR has to use an external hard drive. SCSI is the protocol that the X uses to communicate with the hard drive. A hard drive is nothing more (in theory), than a huge floppy disk. Instead of storing 1. 44 Megs of data, you can store 100 Megs of data, or larger depending on the storage capacity of the drive. There are two types of SCSI Hard drives, removable and fixed. The most popular removable is the Iomega Zip 100. There are literally hundreds of fixed hard drives. If you want to use a removable drive, consider the Iomega SCSI Zip 250. If you want a fixed hard drive, consider calling Glyph Technologies. They test and guarantee every drive they sell. Their contact info is at the back of this manual in the ASR-X Partners area. Format a floppy disk Formatting a disk means that the ASR-X/X Pro will now make the disk usable or "mark" the disk with its own identification information. Disks formatted by one ASR-X/X Pro are compatible with other ASR-X /X Pro's. Insert a DS/HD (Double Sided / High Density) 3. 5" floppy disk into the drive Press the System/MIDI button Turn the Parameter knob till the screen displays "Access Disk Utils" Press Enter Screen= Floppy Disk Press Enter System will read the disk and display a message that says "Format disk?" Press Enter Screen = Erase and Format this disk?Press Enter $65;; 352 -803 67$57 0$18$/ *Floppy disks that were preformatted for DOS, Windows or disks that were formatted by a Windows computer are ready to use, and do not need to be formatted by the ASR. Save to a floppy disk Press the Save button Screen = Floppy Disk Press Enter Turn the Parameter knob to select the file type you want to save Press Enter Load from a floppy disk Press the Load button Screen = Floppy Disk Press Enter Turn the Parameter knob to select the file type you want to load Turn the Value knob to select the specific file to load (There may be several files that have the same file type, you can go through them with the Value knob) Once you have found the file you want to load, press Enter Format a SCSI Hard drive Formatting a SCSI drive means that the ASR-X/X Pro will now mark the drive with its own identification information. [. . . ] The ASR-X is expandable to 32 Meg of RAM. The ASR-X Pro is expandable to 64 Meg of RAM (via two 32 meg simm's). In an ASR-X Pro, the fully expanded RAM also expands the sequencer memory. Without expanded RAM it has around 31, 000 events. [. . . ]