Korg Triton question

I have the classic triton, fully expanded with the moss board, vintage archives expansion and i think its the dance extreme board.

Im thinking of upgrading to the extreme.

Will i be able to load all my sounds that I dont want to lose from mine to the extreme.

if so how do i do it.

and is it worth upgrading to the extreme.

Im trying to set up the perfect home studio, so to ad to my gear, thinking of this, with my kurzweil and rd700sx piano. and a load of software synths.

Maybe - native instruments complete.

Is there any other software worth getting? and does anyone know where to get it cheap, copied, or free

You might lose a few sounds, but the vast majority will transfer.

From the Korg USA website:

http://www.korg.com/gear/prod_info.asp?A_PROD_NO=TRITONEXTREME#mainContent

Underlying all sounds in the Triton (Programs) are actual digitized samples. The above excerpt means that only part of the samples (Sound ROM) from the Dance Extreme EXB board is part of the Triton Extreme sample set (the base Triton sample set and the Vintage Archives sample set ARE included).

To transfer, you will simply need to perform a "Save .pcg" (Program-Combination-Global) data on your Triton Classic, then perform a "Load .pcg" command on the Triton Extreme. The actual process may be a little more involved expecially with Combis because the Program locations (e.g. A001) won't be the same in the Extreme as in the Classic. If you can swing it, you might want to keep your Classic around for a month after you buy the Extreme to ease the transfer process.

Any EXB-MOSS Programs will load in the Extreme (assuming the EXB-moss card is installed).

The Triton Extreme does have a tremendously larger number of sounds than the Triton Classic. Your Triton Classic with 2 EXB-PCM boards has 32+16+16=64 MB of Sound ROM, while the Triton Extreme has 160MB.

Other advantages of the Extreme:

-- accepts a Compact Flash card instead of a floppy disk

-- has an external USB connection for external hard drive or external CD burner, compared with the Triton Classic SCSI port

-- can perform resampling (sampling of the audio outputs of Program, Combi, and Sequencer mode) which can't be done on the Classic.

As for "is it worth it to make the upgrade?", only you can make that decision.