Here's what Aj had to say ...


When you press a key on the keyboard to play a sound, if the entire sound is on the hard drive and is only accessed when you press the key (AUDIO STREAMING), then there will be about 2seconds delay before you hear the sound ... not practical for Arrangers. However if the sound is copied from the refridgerator (HD) to the table (memory) and you go to play the sound (eat), it only now takes nano-seconds before you hear the sound (in most cases the delay is bearly noticeable to the human ear!!).

SD1 - The SD1 already has the AUDIO loops loaded into MEMORY. Whenever you recall a style (behind the scenes the SD1 immediatily points to the associated wave file already in memory) before you have time to play a note. The only audio product that currently fully utilizes AUDIO STREMING (i.e playing instantly from the Hard drive) is the MIDIJAY. When you go to play a wave or Mp3 (or even a Midi), the midijay plays as the song comes into memory ... in real time (which is why you see the HD light flashing as the song plays ... because it is reading and playing at the same time!!.