Specifications

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SP-3 SCSI Interface Manual I
Managing Disk Files
File Types
When you press the (LOAD) button and one of the page buttons ( (INSTRUMENT), C-SONG),
(SYSTEM-MIDI], or (m) ), the ASR-10 displays any files of the particular type indicated that
are available on the currently selected SCSI Storage Device. For example, on the Instrument page,
you will see a list of any Instruments or Bank files that are present. The following chart shows
which pages contain the different file types, and which indicator lights will be illuminated on the
display for each type.
ASR-10 File Types:
Mode/Page
Load/Instrument
LoadlSeqGong
Load/System*MIDI
LoadlEff ects
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File Types Indicators
instruments LOAD + INST
Banks
LOAD + INST + BANK
Sequences LOAD + SEQ
Songs
LOAD + SEQ + SONG
Directories LOAD + SYSTEM
Macro Files LOAD + SYSTEM + MACRO
System Exclusive Data LOAD + MIDI
Effect Files LOAD
File Numbers
Associated with each file in a given directory is a number indicating its position in that directory.
File numbers are not assigned or organized according to file type, but by the order in which they
are saved. For example, file #1 may be an Instrument, file #2 may be a sequence, file #3 may be
another Instrument, and so on, depending on the order in which they were created. There is a
limit of 38 files that can be grouped together at once. When using floppy disks, this number is
not as important, since it is rare to be able to fit the maximum number of files on one disk. SCSI
storage devices, however, have the capacity to hold thousands of files, and it becomes desirable
to organize the files into distinct groups called Directories.
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