Sequential circuits samplers

<<Try to load voices from one disk, eject during load and put in another
disk with vocals...
this is instant cut up technique as the prophet trys to merge the disks
and will do a random montage!
Be carefull not to ruin your floppydrive - no violence needed.>>

I think there might be an easier way of doing this... you can load the vocal 
disc normally, then just load the preset/mapping data from the other disc 
using... using the... no, it's gone. 
it's in the manual somewhere- it's a time-saving feature so's if you've made 
a disc you're /almost/ happy with, and you aren't going to edit the actual 
samples anymore, you can just resave your edited parameter data and avoid all 
that clunking and waiting. by the same token, your "old" parameter data can be 
reloaded from disc if you've messed up some parameter or map editing.
 
the keyboard maps are really easy once you get the hang of the interface- 
remember that any vcf/vca adjustments you make are available per sample /and/ 
globally across the whole map (when the + is on).

there should be a chunk of the manual in our files section if you haven't 
seen one. 

I found it helped to start with the keyboard in "left map only" and work on 
one half of the machine at a time. mostly I was using it in 3b, SCI's oddball 
bitimbral mode, with each half of the memory a different instrument. 

I got used to doing things like spreading the samples between the two memory 
halves this way;  which sample number you record to next can affect how you 
build maps. you'd need to keep all the samples together in one half for an 
instrument that was to be played in a bitimbral setup like mine, but an instrument 
that had the whole machine to itself would have samples alternating between 
the two sides. most of the factory discs are built this way, so that unexpanded 
machines still get patches that make sense.

the thing that failed in my 2000 (and luckily I have a 2002 aswell) was the 
keyboard controller chip; WC can't find a replacement so I have a rainy-day 
project to restore the thing using some other method. damn shame- I loved working 
on that keyboard. I'm hoping my p600 doesn't go the same way.

duncan/r.m.i.