Hey!
I've been using soft samplers for about 3 years now and they are amazing. Hardware samplers are history!
Best soft sampler would be Native Instruments "Contact" (i think that's the name).
I'm pretty sure that it supports Roland format. I also have a DIGI001 - good card!
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