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Originally posted by abacus:
...other manufactures haven’t bothered for some reason, so their owners have to rely mainly on 3rd party support developers. One of the reasons may be the limited amount of Ram and Rom space on current boards, (And loading time of course...


Roland chose the SRX route, which offers exceptional quality - and NO load waits - but it's still, necessarily, a hardware solution limited to voice expansion. They were very short-sighted in abandoning the style aftermarket, especially when the Gold styles of the E-80 V2 upgrade proved they are still peerless at creating them.