Sequential circuits samplers

Man, what a deal you got on that!  The stereo field jumping is 
normal.  According to the manual the first 4 voices are assigned to 
the left and the remaining 4 the right outputs if you use the stereo 
outs.  If you have dynamic allocation on, then the output to left or 
right does not necessarily happen in sequence (first 4 notes on the 
left, then the next 4 notes on the right).

I read about this before I got my p2k and the manual and thought it 
was a weird choice for stereo output.  I was hoping the manual would 
shed some light on *why* it was done that way but no luck.  This was 
the mid-'80s so I can understand the early and experimental nature of 
the technology, but I would have preferred a synthesized stereo 
output like on the old delays contemporary with the p2k (like the 
Digitech RDS delays).