well im buying a triton rack and need advice

[proteus9]

love the 8 expansion slots and the ROMs aren't to bad in price as compared to the EMU ones. Reading through I discovered that the Sampler will read the Akai formats, which is really cool as I have a ton of them. How much total memory is allocated for the sampler? Is this the base 16 meg? I may be confusing myself, but does any other function require the ram except the sampler? and really if you max it out at 96 megs... you'll be sitting quite pretty as SIMMs are quite cheap these days. And to top it all off can you internally mount a harddrive or CD rom?if not where do you put them?

Can anyone point out a good resource for how bank and patch changes work? Do I really need a keyboard that will transmit 16 channels? I can handle the bank changes and channels from the sequencer and output the keyboard to the right channel, but what about where i'm not running the sequencer, like live and so forth? The only keyboard I have is ont he poly800 and it makes a sorry controller...

[Jeyan]

I have a Triton rack and it is the most useful module I've ever worked with. Don't worry about the features, it has it all. You name it, you can use it for any purpose. Hope it is the best time to buy one, cos Korg's 40th anniversary sale is going on, where you get $140 in mail in rebate and a free Concert Grand Piano expansion. Regarding the sampler it comes with a 16 MB simm, but you can go upto 96 (3x32mb) those simms are inexpensive, i use the ones from my old Pentium I computer. They work good. I don't think you can mount a hard drive in there but I think there is a way to put a card slot in there through custom cables. You may have to check these with the Triton experts in http://www.tritonhaven.com/forum/index.html