Specifications

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loaded from. This allows you to keep all of your Bank files in one directory or group of
directories, as described in a preceding section. The Bank file resides in whatever directory you
are in when you save the Bank to disk.
Direct-MacrosTM
What Is a Direct-Macro?
It may have occurred to you that with the large number of files that a SCSI Storage Device can
contain, it would be nice to be able to get directly to a directory or specific file quickly rather than
having to scroll through all of the files and manually enter each directory and sub-directory.
Direct-Macros allow you to do this. In the ASR-10, a Direct-Macro is a shortcut that allows you to
get to a file or directory on your SCSI Storage Device (or floppy) with just a few button presses.
Complete understanding and utilization of macros is very important to the effective use of your
SCSI Storage Device. Spend time to make sure that these concepts are clear to you, so that you
can set up macros to access all the directories and files that you use often.
Organizing your files in directories makes it easier to locate an individual file, but moving up and
down through directories can become tedious if you are working with a specific set of files that
are in different directories.
Macros allow you to assign a number (1 to 28) to an individual file
location. You use or invoke the macro by holding down (LOAD) while entering the macro
number (using the numeric keypad), and when you release (LOAD), the ASR-10 will
automatically go to the correct directory for the requested file and display its name.
The group of up to 28 currently defined macros may be stored as a Macro File. These macro files
appear along with directories on the Load/System*MIDI page. You can have many macro files
on disk, but the only macros that are in effect are the macros from the most recently loaded macro
file. Only one can be loaded in at a time, giving you access to twenty-eight macros. The best
place to save these files is in the root directory. The default macro file created by the formatting
procedure is located in the Root Directory of the SCSI Storage Device, and is called MACROFILE
1. A macro file having this or any other name will be automatically loaded at bootup if it is found
as file number 5 in the Root Directory. If you want to use other macros, the first thing you should
do is load the desired macro file after you boot from the SCSI Storage Device.
The macro file created by the formatting procedure, named MACROFILE 1, contains macros
predefined for getting to the various directories in the default directory structure, as follows:
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FLOPPY DRIVE 2 FACTORY SOUNDS 3 MY
SOUNDS
5 FACTORY SEQS 6 MY SEQUENCES
8 FACTORY BNKS
9 MY BANKS
0 MACRO FILE
Note: All macro operations are performed with the (LOAD) button held down, and
take effect when the (m) button is released.
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