The user-installable EXB-SMPL Sampling Upgrade adds two audio inputs with microphone/line switching, a variable gain knob, a SCSI interface and support for 48kHz 16-bit linear mono/stereo sampling. Sample waveform editing functions including crossfade loop, truncate, normalize, time-slice, time-stretch and rate convert. External SCSI devices can be connected, making it possible to use a wide range of storage media, or to access CD-ROM sound libraries. AIFF, WAVE, AKAI S1000/3000 (samples and multi-samples) as well as Korg format data are all supported.
The EXB-SMPL board comes standard with 16MB of SIMM memory. This allows just under 3 minutes of mono sampling (half that for stereo.) Additionally, the supplied 16MB module can be exchanged for two, user installable, 72-pin SIMM memory modules to expand the memory to 64MB. Only modules that are either Fast Page or EDO-compatible, with an access speed of 60 nsec or faster, should be used.