This question goes out to anyone who knows or currently owns the XV-5080. I am considering selling my JV-2080 and buying the XV-5080 to replace it. A big part of it is that I used to own a S-760 and sold it to get a more expandable sampler. With the 5080 allowing 128 MB of RAM and 128-note polyphony it looks like quite a beast.

I recently heard from a friend who bought one and he told me that it will accept a maximum of 128 samples. Is this true? When loading up orchestral and acoustic instruments it's easy to run out of RAM before you run out of sample address space. However, if you load up a multi-sampled velocity-switched drum set, it is quite easy to hit this limitation.

Anyone know? If is true, then this is quite disappointing as most modern samplers today allow for as much as 999 samples (if you don't run out of memory). I'm talking samples themselves here and not the RAM required to store them.

Thanks in advance.

Fernando