Peter,

Here's some initial brief feedback (I'll get more back to you later); you had asked about the load time of some of the Demo Tunes in the Styles window (if I understood you correctly). Those did take a little longer (compared to the load times using the HD) than most other tunes I loaded in....the first I tried were, of course, my Favorites (i.e., those that have frozen tracks but most of which utilize 5 RTs), and they loaded in very quickly (most took about 5 seconds....some as high as 10 seconds).....but the same was true for the HD (although I could see that it was a little faster for most tunes....from 1 to 5 seconds faster)....but almost negligible across the board for my Favorites. In all that I've compared so far, I selected tunes that had 5 RTs (including the RD).

When I was playing a tune and decided to try another style, by selecting the style and indexing Play, the USB 2.0 took from 7 to 15 seconds (most required no more than 10 seconds).....while the HD appeared to be from 2 to 5 seconds faster.

So far, I've not noticed any glitches or hiccups from the use of the USB flashdrive.....but again, probably need to do further testing.

I like the miniaturization achieved by using a flashdrive. I'll continue to report additional findings. I wish I had a USB 3.0 to compare as well, it should work great given what I've observed about the USB 2.0. Don't buy your 2.0 yet.....wait for feedback from Peter (and myself...and others that have good info about all this).

Cecil