Can you confirm the amount you loaded in that 20 sec.?

It might be slow by computer standards, James, but that (if it is 64MB) is still pretty blistering by modern hardware keyboard sampler standards. Up until now, virtually nothing bettered the 1MB/sec rate of my 15 year old K2500's SCSI system. And the T2/3 are still glacial by comparison (not to mention completely closed sample formats, so no Akai import at all)...

The thing is, these so-called 'computer' based arrangers other than totally 'open' things like MS and OAS Wersi still use hardware chips for voice production, RAM storage, things like that. It's those data paths that put the chokehold on the RAM loading, I think...