I agree with everything you've said, but it couldn't be RAM even though it is cheaper. We'd hae to follow the Roland SRJV Schematics which call for some type of ROM.

The ROM board could have some instructions (That may take up less than 128K) on how to group an organize the sampled patches.

Roland could be clever and confine us to using S-Series or RDAC sampled sounds, which swould be fine! Roland has great sounding CD-ROMS. They wouldn't have to really worry about sales, since the XV series can read samples of most formats, and it would if anything boost sales of their sample CDs.

Just like the Soundbridge for the Alesis, we could take the sounds off CD on a computer's CDROM and dump it via MIDI through the SRJV20. We could then save the sounds to floppy via the .MID or .SVQ method. Whichever is cheaper.

The Trinity, Alesis x.1, Yamaha SYs & older Ensoniqs have this. Now it is our turn.

The Infamous EPU.