billbaker wrote:
Maybe the reason there's not as much RAM is that there's more good stuff in the primary EXi's boot up than there was before.
That's part of the reason for the change, along with OS updates.
Is it often that you need both a German and a Japanese grand piano loaded at once?
Do you always need the brass/woodwind expansion library on hand?
If you play with a drummer, do you need to load the new drum kits?
if you're exploring a Kronos for the first time in a store, or when you're incorporating it in into your workflow, the answer to all of this is usually "yes." In these cases, you should be able to experience everything it can do as a fully loaded instrument. Even though we want to show off how fast the SSD is, loading an EXs library just isn't quite as much as fun as playing one.
Customization often follows exploration. Once you've gotten to decide which aspects are the most important to you, you can trim down your preload to suit your needs, and gain sample RAM as a result. There's nearly 1gb of RAM available without the EXs libraries loaded.
To summarize, a new Kronos will auto-load nearly all of the included expansion data. If you don't need it, you can load/unload it very quickly, and the speed of the SSD makes this quick and painless.
Hope this helps.
-Rich
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