Disk operations on a lot of Yamaha's are glacial, at best. Try using your T2's sampler one day... Load time is abysmal, but try SAVING samples to disk. Might as well go to bed and wake up next day! Great features are one thing, but without the peripheral structure to be able to use them easily, might as well not have them at all.

This is one area that the T3 had better REALLY improve, because a sampler to an OMB is only as good as how fast it can load up whatever you need for ANY song in your repertoire. If you've got five minutes of dead time to load in a set of loops, or a Uillean pipes sample for a requested Irish tune, you're just not going to use it...

Yamaha apparently sped up sample load time on the new MotifXS's. Let us hope that that technology gets ported over to the T3. I would be VERY surprised if more than a tiny handful of people used the T2's sampler, live...

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 04-13-2008).]