You can buy a Triton for its sounds, expansion boards (MOSS), it's delicated and "ALL IN ONE" form but it's sampler is primitive and far less capable than the Yamaha A4000 or most cheap samplers.

Of cource the above is just my opinion but you can read the following:

1. Only 64Mb (96 on rack) ram expansion addressable as 16Mb banks.

2. No flash memory to save internal samples (Not even as option)

3. No internal HDD and/or ZIP option

4. No onboard SCSI but as an option (somewhat slow)

5. Only 2 types of filtering (LPF and HPF) with only one of them with resonance (Yamaha has 16 type and combinations)

6. No resampling ability

7. No Loop/devide remix feature

8. No direct to CD/HDD recording / burning option

9. Poor sampling user interface implementation

10. 16/16 bit / 48Khz versus 24/20 bit /48 Khz on A4000

11. No S/P-DIF (o/c) on keyboard and only optional on rack module

12. Maximum sample length 16 MB Mono vs 64 / Stereo on A4000

13. No support for multilayered samples (velocity or parms swithing)

14. Triton can read WAV,AIFF as well as AKAI S1000/3000 samples only. Yamaha as you know can read those ones plus samples from EX5/7, SU700, TX16W, EMU EIIIx and S760

15. There is no commercial sample library for Korg

16. No computer based editing / sound creation software (not even as extra) vs Yamaha's excellent "TWE Wave Editor" and the rest toolkits

17. Limited user support with no web support options at'all.

18. No third party sampling options (CD samples,patches etc)

I'm not against Triton as a workstation (btw i own one) but as many "workstations" it's extra features are just basic. It's an excellent synth with wonderfull sounds and nice analog creation options but not a Kurzweil or E-Synth or anything like these ones.

It cannot stand as a full blown sampler like A4000 or even cheaper ones like Emu ESI and the rest.

I hope it helps


[This message has been edited by Inray (edited 12-05-2000).]