Sequential circuits samplers

Thanks.  With regards to the discs and the sounds on them, I've 
gotten far enough along in the manual where what's happening with the 
discs seems like normal operations to me.

What doesn't seem normal still are the internal voices. Granted, I 
haven't read far enough into the manual to understand what's going on 
with those, but like I said only 5 or so of the 12 presets have any 
sound associated with them.  The sounds are loaded into memory after 
I turn on the p2k without a disk in the drive, so nothing should be 
messing with the memory.

There is no internal battery and from what I understand the internal 
presets are set in ROM.  Yes?  Is this a separate ROM from the one 
the OS resides on?  Am I making sense here?  Anyone else's internal 
presets seem odd?



> 
> best way to check it's working properly is, paradoxically, to let 
it boot 
> normally with no disc-sounds loaded. what you're hearing is 
probably a 
> consequence of the upper and lower transpose limitations of the 
machine- at different 
> sample rates, it can shift a given sample only so far up/down the 
keyboard. 
> also, discs designed for machines with less memory or with longer 
samples don't 
> necessarily fill up all the sound locations in the machine. so even 
a working 
> factory disc might leave gaps in the memory or memory locations- 
you could check 
> all their sizes and see if they add up to.... er..... (scratching 
head- 
> y'know, I used to regard myself as a power-user of the 2k...) 128 
or 256 blocks. if 
> there's an empty sample location, try setting it up to record into 
and see 
> how big you can make it.
> sounds like you got a good deal though.
> 
> duncan/r.m.i.