Hi

I have just upgraded to the pro9000 and am hoping yamaha would introduce a sampling expansion board so we can save our own samples too. This would allow us to store the samples in the expansion board and not have to load them all the time into custom voices.
This would also increase the sampling memory of the pro9000 from 64 to 128. Thats If yamaha makes the expansion board allowing another 64mb.

I use my own samples on stage and it takes me about 20 minutes to load about "50 mb" of sample voices. I rely on these samples as i use these in my songs. If the power turns off what do i do. This is a very important board which needs to be implemented in the pro9000.

Please are there any other pro9000 users who have this concern. If so let us bring it to the attention of Yamaha to introduce a board with the sampling backup storage. As other companies such as General Music have used in there keyboards such as the GEM WK8 and GENEYSIS, with their backup flash ram.

I hope Yamaha you are listening. if you are don't forget to put rass on the board also so when we load drum loops we can change the tempo speed without the pitch changing.

Thanks Guys
Ali

I strongly doubt any kind of sampler expansion board is feasible on the 9000Pro. What might be of more help is to work with your SCSI options and find a larger and faster drive to hold your samples with. Possibly a newer model SCSI CDR with fast read times would help.

Are you using a harddrive on your pro? Surely it doesnt take 20 minutes to load samples from a harddrive? If you use floppy disks, then I would strongly recommend an upgrade to a harddrive! Whilst it is perfectly feasible to put a few hundred MB of flash memory into a keyboard for sample playback and recording, I dont know if flash memory would be fast enough except for storage. For actual sampling and replay, perhaps you would need quicker memory. Even so 256MB of flash memory costs about £100 these days, surely someone has considered a flash reader add=on over scsi for keyboards?

Simon



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