Still hearing people talk about loading new audio styles into the S950. It has been told that this cannot be done in realtime. You have to load them (slowly!) into FLASH RAM like doing an OS update. Then you have to reboot. Plus, there's very little additional RAM, so you aren't going to be able to load in more than probably one expansion pak (and that may be only a few styles) at a time.

For live players, this is practically useless.

Diki are you sure about that?

The reason I ask is because as of this time there are no other audio styles to import into the S950, so there is really no way of telling how long it will take to load an audio style from a USB stick. I find it hard to believe that future audio styles will contain so much data that a keyboard reboot would be necessary.

In fact, who knows, loading future audio styles may be as simple as loading directly from a USB stick. I admit, I don't know, but can't find any evidence one way or another, again, mainly because as of this time, there are no external audio styles available to import. But you may be correct, and we will know for sure...once new audio styles become available.

Now if you're talking expansion packs, a totally different entity, a reboot may be necessary to update the Flash Ram, but I'm not even 100% sure of that, as again, I know of no one who has loaded the 1 or 2 current expansion packs available to validate a slow load time and reboot.

Pretty sure I read it here. Do a search. I believe it is the nature of FLASH RAM. It isn't functionally the same as regular RAM (which would have made more sense if it could be loaded at USB2 speeds). Yes, I'm talking about new audio styles. They are not loaded in like the Multipad Audio Link, which reads direct from the stick. Any new audio styles have to be loaded into the FLASH RAM.

Check the first few S950 posts, I think that's where I read it.

This is from the recently released reference manual:

(PSR-S950) Limitations on the Audio part:
• If you select a preset Audio Style as starting data, the Audio part is to be used as is. The Audio part cannot
be deleted, edited and created from scratch.
• The created Style containing the Audio part can be used only via an instrument that supports Audio
Styles as well as the SFF GE format.
• The Audio part cannot be copied from another Style or Section in the ASSEMBLE page. If you want to
use a specific Audio part, make sure to select the corresponding Audio Style before calling up the Style
Creator display.

As I haven't laid hands on the keyboard yet, there is no way of knowing, but I suspect that additional Audio Drum styles will only be available via Expansion Packs that can only be played from the 64MB flash drive. As the manual states, only one Expansion Pack can be on the keyboard at a time, and to change Expansion Packs the keyboard needs to be restarted.