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Page 234 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
• The CD3000XL can only read CD-ROMs up to 512Mbytes. CD-ROMs or hard disks larger
than this can be used but any data stored above 512Mbytes will be ignored.
• The CD3000XL comes supplied with 2Mbytes of RAM as standard. However, some
manufacturer’s sounds require more than this (as do many Akai CD-ROMs, by the way) so
we recommend you expand your memory to allow for this.
• Due to certain restrictions when loading sounds from other manufacturer’s CD-ROMs, the
area of memory used for standard MIDI song files (see GLOBAL - SMF) is overwritten when
another manufacturer’s sound is loaded from CD-ROM. In other words, any SMFs you may
have loaded will be erased should you load sounds from another manufacturer’s CD-ROM.
It is best, therefore, to load your sounds first and then load your MIDI song files.
It must be said that whilst the CD3000XL can use sounds made for other samplers, the way
each of these samplers work is different and so you may find that some ‘tweaking’ will be
necessary to optimise the sound for your requirements. However, we hope that the added
benefit of having access to other manufacturers’ sound library outweighs this slight
inconvenience. If it’s any consolation, Akai programs and samples need tweaking when
imported into other samplers!
Refer to the “About Flash ROM” chapter for more information on the load operation when the
flash ROM has been installed.