rikkisbears. I understand your statement about being backward compatible, but doing so does to a certain extent stem future advancement.
viewing the T2 Pads in Cakewalk show added note in the higher octave, which I suspect is string effect.
Michael Bedseems excellent free program MIDIPLAYER 11 does a good job at converting the T2 styles to T1 & 3K. It even has an option to do a folder batch conversion which provides a quick automatic conversions.

[This message has been edited by Graham UK (edited 11-16-2005).]