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The ASR-10 (Advanced Sampling Recorder) is a sampler keyboard which has a synthesizer architecture, and stores samples (16 bit, 30-44.1 KHz) as waveforms, up to a 127 maximum). It stores so called Wavesamples, two multimode digital filters, the LFO, a random noise generator, three envelopes (pitch, filter cutoff, volume) and a modulation matrix with 15 routable modulation sources. The user can combine up to eight layers of WaveSamples.
It has a digital effects processor and midi sequencer (16 tracks, 80 patterns,1 song), and also has extenstive sample edit functions (incl. resampling through it's effects).
Polyphony is 31 voices. Memory is standard 2 Mb which can be expanded to 16 Mb.
The keyboard version has 61 Keys with velocity and aftertouch
There's an 88 weighted keys version called the ARS-88.
Produced 1992-1998
There's a rack version called ASR-10R
I would recommend looking into an Ensoniq ASR-10 or ASR-X. They're both great machines with lots of character and sound amazing. They're also very programmable, with lots of knobs to play with. __________________ Jonathan Black. My Setup: DAW: Ableton Live, Remove or Isolate Vocals: UnMixIt, Audio-to-MIDI: Digital-Ear
...E-MU Emulator II+, E-MU Emax I SE/HD, SCI Prophet 2002, Dynacord ADD One + Drive, Korg DSS-1, E-MU E5000, Ensoniq ASR-10R, Akai S950, Akai S1000, Akai S1100, Akai S3000XL, Akai MPC-2500, Roland S-550, Roland S-750 Turbo, Yamaha TX16W All in all, hardware samplers in 2023 are fun. We have no freaking idea how expensive these...
ASR10 can do this too, a very cool feature indeed when working with music samples.
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