Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

james- no offence, but an enthusiastic market for this technology is established here, & your own mileage is plainly achieved on a different sort of fuel.

I started using the proteus flash simms when an emu hardware sampler (w/ syquest cartridges) let me down on the eve of a trip to the US. I have never looked back. in fact, I got started on this approach by burning flash cards for an alesis s4+. anyone who's tried that will understand that some people will not be put off by any amount of work if they can have unique sounding instruments.

so, the allure of having your own sounds sitting behind your favourite synth engine & UI is a powerful one. I do use samplers, but they are bolted into the rack in the studio. when a new sound is designed & sampled, I can have a solid-state version in the live-rig without worrying about whether the hard-drive has survived the trip in the back of some rust-bucket transit van.

sadly, emu didn't market the flash simm approach very well, & eventually wound up their hardware business, leaving those of us that invested in it searching ebay for scarce parts. 
that someone here has shown enough enterprise & enthusiasm (not to mention ingenuity) to find another way to get custom sounds into the p2k synth engine is proof enough that there's a small but real demand.

I'll keep doing it this way until waldorf fix the damn blofeld properly & make a rack version with same/higher spec as the p2k.

d.