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	Editing ASR-X Sounds by Garth Hjelte
	June 29, 2002 ~ Here's an interesting question which should have made it to the FAQ some time ago but it didn't...Better late than never. << I have a black box for 6 month. Now I've discovered lot of resource on the net, like this group. This is my first question: someone know where I can find a PC software like ASR-X tools for editing sounds? freeware is BETTER! someone can tell me why some RAM sound is totally editable from the ASR-X, while ram kit made from ROM sound or some other sound I've downloaded aren't? >> To which Garth from Chicken Systems replied: "Oh, shoot - isn't this in the FAQ? At least, it should be. Ensoniq had some tweaks in the format to jam in the Ensoniq EPS/ASR-10 compatibility, as well as to incorporate layering while simplifying the user interface. I can't guess Ensoniq's motivations on why they did it this way, but they did. One guess is that they fully expected the unit (and the MR/ZR series) to be edited on a computer, rather than the machine itself. Basically, the user interface allows the editing of only one keymap of sound. When you hit Pad-Edit, and you can't scroll to all the additional cool parameters, you know you are editing a sound that has more than one keymap ("layer"), and the ASR-X doesn't even allow you to edit the first layer (what is 'the first', anyway?) It blocks you completely out. The ASR-X will only allow front-panel editing on 1-SOUNDS that are designed initially to have only one layer of sound. Sounds that use the patch selects are an example of multi-layer sounds. Another example are imported EPS/ASR/Akai sounds. ROM sounds, which usually use the patch selects, are another example. However, with a computer editor hooked up via MIDI, you can access most of the information and edit it. Of course, you have to move a ROM sound into RAM first - then you can edit most everything. The exception is EPS/ASR/Akai imported sounds, in which Ensoniq left a bug in where the information is corrupted if you fetch the information of one of these 1-SOUND's. That never got fixed, nor did Ensoniq ever plug the hole and make it unoperational, like they should have. The editors available are Unisyn from MOTU, ASR-X Tools for Windows, and the freeware Mac editor."

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