How The Flashrom Works - Akai S3000XL User Manual

HOW THE FLASHROM WORKS

The FlashROM is a separate piece of the sampler's memory area available on top of the
RAM and data is saved to the FlashROM in the SAVE mode and works pretty much
exactly the same as saving to disk. The FlashROM has volumes where different data may
be saved. The time it takes to save the data is about the same as saving to a hard disk
but, once saved, the data is available virtually immediately because the
S3000XL/S3200XL only has to load in the program data, not the samples. Even though
a single FMX008 can hold as much as 8Mbytes of data, because the samples
themselves do not need to be loaded, it take just a few seconds to load
Disk
CD-ROM
Etc..
The above diagram shows the signal flow of data in the S3000XL/S3200XL. You record a
sample (or load some sounds from disk or CD-ROM) into RAM, you edit them as
appropriate, all the time playing them over MIDI. Without the FlashROM board(s), you
would then normally save them to disk. When you need to use this data again, you
would, of course, load it from disk. With the FMX008 installed, once you are happy with
the samples and programs you have created and/or edited, you can save them instead to
the FlashROM. If you wish, you can select that when you power up the sampler, these
sounds will be automatically loaded and available for use immediately or you can, if you
prefer, select to load the material from FlashROMmanually. Because the samples reside
in the FlashROM, the S3000XL/S3200XL reads directly from that and so it is only
necessary to load the programs into memory which, of course, is very fast, taking only a
few seconds.
4 The actual time it takes depends on the number of programs you have saved. The more
programs, the longer it takes but it is still very fast indeed.
S3000XL Operator's Manual
TOTAL INTERNAL MEMORY - 48Mbytes
Record
TOTAL RAM AREA - 32Mbytes
Simms slot #1
Load
(up to 16Mbytes)
Save
TOTAL FLASHROM - 16Mbytes
FlashROM #1
(8Mbytes)
4
.
Simms slot #2
(up to 16Mbytes)
Save to
FlashROM
FlashROM #2
(8Mbytes)
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