Hi

Cosmic Dreamer:
Are you sure the SAMPLES in the 5080 are 24-bit. I mean.... This would use quite a lot of ROM. Not to mention that the effects-processing and D/A-converters would have to be 56-bit or something. (I am not an expert in digital signal processing......) I believe that you can't process 24-bit audio with a 24-bit (or less) effects-processor successfully.

So: Are you absolutely sure that the samples are not 16-bit as before, but that synthesis and effects are 24-bit?

I have never heard of any synth that uses more than 16-bits samples. Even not the Kurzweils. The rest of the synthesis engine and DACs may be (and always is ) of higher resolution.

StigF