If it does have " real sampling " capabilities, then that's certainly a plus... if anyone will actually use it. I would hope that it isn't set up the way Yamaha did it on the Motif sries. You have to load everything up at each startup, no saving in flash rom.

That isn't all that bad, especially if you have a good usb jumpdrive with enough memory ( Motif can hold 512 mb of samples ) but the menu screens and processes required to take raw samples and make something useable out of them is mind boggling. It isn't nearly as bad when you have a sample package already put together that you can load up, but making your own from scratch .. man .. all I can say is fugettaboudit ( in my very NY Italian accent of course )....

I wonder if the user will need to install memory modules ( dimms, etc ) like I had to on the Motif...

AJ