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Section 2 — System•MIDI

About Macros 21

Macros

What Is a 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 your files. Macros allow you to do this. In the ASR-10, a macro is a

shortcut command that allows you to get to a file or directory on your SCSI Storage Device (or

floppy) with just two or three 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, and that you

set up macros to get you to 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 (1-28) 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:

FACTORY SNDS

FACTORY SEQS

FACTORY BNKS

MY SOUNDS

MY SEQUENCES

MY BANKS

FLOPPY DRIVE

2 3

8 9

MACRO FILE

1 2 ... 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 ... 389 390

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