Tom,

I thought I did mention. Styles load at the same speed as a floppy style. This unit doesn't have the advantages of a hard drive or extra user memory. It does enable one to change "floppies" at the flick of a button.

With real floppies, if you know what song you want to do next, and it's on another floppy, you either have to change floppies while performing (extremely difficult) or change after the song (time consuming). With the HDM2, you can change banks before the song ends, and you can then call up the styles on that bank immediately. The time it takes to change banks, however, is only slightly faster than manually taking out the floppy and putting another in. It's not a perfect system, but it is a definite improvement over the current system.

Beakybird