Possibly a much more expensive choice initially.rfoshaug wrote: I'm still debating with myself whether it was a good choice to use USB and sample RAM instead of ROM cards as on the Triton series.
What happened with the EX-USB-PCM?
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Re: What happened with the EX-USB-PCM?
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Hard drive expansion
I still don't understand why Korg doesn't load expansions on some kind of hard drive or flash disk.
I pretty sure that the current ROM-memory is stored on a flash disk and that could easily be used for "expansions" that could be accessed instantly after booting up.
I pretty sure that the current ROM-memory is stored on a flash disk and that could easily be used for "expansions" that could be accessed instantly after booting up.
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Re: Hard drive expansion
I asked about this some 6 months ago on www.karma-lab.com/forumspinoria wrote:I still don't understand why Korg doesn't load expansions on some kind of hard drive or flash disk.
I pretty sure that the current ROM-memory is stored on a flash disk and that could easily be used for "expansions" that could be accessed instantly after booting up.
Not really the answer I was hoping for.ME: Does anybody know what kind of storage the m3 uses internally? If the M3 already stores samples internally, why shouldn't we be able to move/store our favorite expansion samples in the same place? The only reasonable explanation (except greed) would be that the internal storage is already full? Yeah right, as if!
Assuming that 256 will be the limit of memory upgrade we won't be able to load every expansion that will be released into RAM at the same time. Then let's hope that we at least can make our own USB stick with our favorite expansion samples so that we don't need to load every byte of our precious 320 RAM with BS we never gonna use.
Martin Hines: The M3 factory samples (ROM) are burned onto a read-only Memory chip (similar to the Motif XS and Roland Fantom X). There is other memory used to hold/run the OS and the M3 software. Some of that memory probably used to uncompress multi-samples as they are being played.
There most likely is NOT "extra" storage available for external samples. Otherwise, the M3/Motif XS/FantomX would not need sample RAM for external samples.
Back to the main issue
This thread has lost some focus....
Any new rumours about the expansions?
Any new rumours about the expansions?
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