I like Dreamer's idea myself. If there is one weakness on this board for me, it's the drum sets. I have plenty of excellent sounding sets for DR008 and some of my other samplers that aren't all that large, and will load relatively fast into the T2.

This weekend I'll be taking the 512 mb's of ram from my Motif ES and putting it into the T2. I never use the sampling feature on the ES anyway, since in comparison to my software samplers it's pretty much a nightmare to use.

T42, as far as getting more out of my arranger.. yep I sure want to. That's why I converted all of those BIAB styles in the first place... so I'd have them long before I might get a bit tired of the internal ones. Next up are some new multipads, because the ones that loop certainly can add spice to a style or allow me to turn off and then substitute a style's guitar part, or bass line, for example.

I'll probably add a few synth sounds and multipads to my board as well. Good synth samples don't have to take up a whole lot of memory in comparison to some acoustic sounds - remember you're not trying to recreate all of the nuances of an acoustic instrument. I've got some nice synth soundfonts that are well under 8 mb total that have some great synths on them. Some are less than 1 mb overall.

As far as doing any serious sampling work, where I might want to have the best instruments in a studio / recording setting, I'd simply stick with my computer samplers and software modules. Using them is simpler than using most hardware and besides, noone I know of who is serious about using sampling in a production ( other than one shots or simple phrases ) would use a non dedicated sampler in the first place, whether it was a workstation like the Motif ES or Triton series, or an arranger.

AJ

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 08-25-2006).]