<< Wow -- I'm surprised. So you're saying that, even without the S option, samples can be fully edited, and can also be replaced/changed via MIDI?>>(posted 9338 days ago)You can load samples in, either through disk or dumped via SCSI or MIDI and can edit them to your hearts content, without the sample option.
<< Does this mean that all the sample memory in a base K2000 (without S) is not ROM, but static RAM or something?>>
No. You can take any ROM sample, edit it's start, end and loop points and then save it as something else. Sample RAM is not needed you are simply pointing towards the sample ROM sample with new reference points.
<< If one *does* edit/replace the original samples in the K2000, can one get them back, say from disk?>>
More than likely you would save sample edits to a user location and not overwrite the orginal sample number. Even you put the new sample in place of the old one, all you would have to do is delete it and you'd be back to where you started. << Looking at info on the Kurzweil site, I think I figured out something. Please tell me if this sentence is true: the Sampling option isn't necessary for you to be able to edit samples, but you *do* need sample RAM installed, since the original samples are in ROM; and sample RAM is not installed by default.>>
You do need sample RAM if you are going to load samples in from disk, or transfer them into the unit from SCSI or MIDI. You do NOT need sample RAM to make edits in existing ROM samples.
Take Care,
Mike