> However, I have before me, product info on the Ensoniq ASR-10.  A friend
> of mine who is way into synths says that all of the really large studios 
he
> has ever been in all have different equipment, except for this Ensoniq
> keyboard/sampler.  

All I have been in use Akai. It's the studio standard. The S-1000 have been
the industry standard of samplers for years.

> One big advantage, in my mind, is not only phenomenal
> sample processing ability, but the ability to be linked into a SCSI bus,
> and transfer its info directly into a computer for mastering, instead of
> not having a direct digital out like many samplers.  

Hrm, ASR-10 is an old sampler architecture no doubt. The sample processing,
for example a fade out, is not fast. 

All pro samplers have both SCSI and S/PDIF as standard and not option as
on the ASR-10.

> My point?  This, along
> with many other pro studio pieces of hardware does NOT support MOD,
> Csound ..orc format, or even DLS format.  I don't know of a keyboard
> which does
> have a .orc out plug, and probably never will!  If you are in a studio,
> and on a schedule, you do not want to muck around trying to get the
> industry standard format converted (non-realtime is obligatory) to the
> favorite format of academia.  

Exactly, one application is to use a Csound platform that makes use 
of the computer's S/PDIF, like the Composer's Desktop Project Csound 
implementation for the Falcon030, so that the sounds get transfered to
the sampler at the same moment as you replay them.

Kind regards
Mikael Hillborg