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APPENDIX 4

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APPLICATIONS

• If you have a set of sounds you use a lot, you can save them to FlashROM and have

them all load automatically so that your favourite sounds are immediately available on

power up.

• If you are gigging, you can do the same, compiling your set beforehand so that your

whole set is immediately available at the gig without needing to take fragile hard disks

or floppy disks with you.

• If you are working on a song, you can save your work to the FlashROM. This will take

the same length of time as a normal save but, after that, of course, your work will be

loaded in seconds from the FlashROM, thus saving you a lot of time when you want

to work on that song.

• Because the FlashROM has volumes like on a hard disk, different songs may be

saved to different volumes so that you may have several songs on the go at any time,

each one taking just a second or two to load.

• You can use the FlashROM to expand your internal memory beyond 32Mbytes to a

maximum of 48Mbytes (if two boards are installed).

• You could use the FlashROM to maintain a ‘pallette’ of your favourite sounds for

working out songs, arrangements, etc., and use the RAM to add new instruments to

this or to record, say, backing vocals, guitar solos, drum loops, etc.. In other words,

whereas in the past you may have used a ROM based synthesiser’s presets for

generating the ‘bread an butter’ sounds in a song and used your sampler for your own

samples, you could use the S3000XL/S3200XL’s FlashROM instead of (or as well as)

your synth to provide the ‘stock’ sounds thereby freeing up more of your RAM for your

samples.

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