Sequential circuits samplers

toorglick wrote:

>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.

I the people at Wine Country, and they sent this explanation for the p2k's 
strange stereo output:

Thanks for your email.. what you report is normal for the Prophet 2000. This
unit is not a STEREO output.. it is a SPLIT output.. meaning voices are
assigned to the Left and 4 voices are assigned to the right.. a cyclical voice
assignement results in 4 voices sound in the left and 4 voices sounding 
from the
right. There is logic to this design in that with Dynamic Allocation OFF, the
Prophet 2000 can assign the sound located in memory A to 4 voices out of one
output, while the sounds located in memory B assign 4 voices to the other
output.. This makes no sense if you have a piano disk with sounds in memory 
A and
memory B all being a piano.. However, if you have a Strings & Brass disk..
you can see that 4 voices of strings out the left and 4 voices of Brass out 
the
right output could be beneficial in separating these 2 different types of
sounds each with 4 voices of polyphony.