I have some performances on my Motif ES8 that combine internal voices, along with a sample or two.  The samples are stored in USR1 voice slots.

Here’s my problem—when I load the whole bank of performances from USB - everything comes in, including the samples.  No problem here.

However, if I want to *override* one particular sample—but loading the desired sample file into the same slot, it overdubs the sample—it does NOT replace the sample file.

How do I re-initialize just this one slot so that I can do a replace rather than an overdub?

thanks in advance, o gurus!
--vla =:-)

The use of the word “overdub” is curious. Maybe this will help… when you load a Voice with samples those samples can, in fact, be used in more than one VOICE. So the unit does not replace any samples. Just because you load a VOICE over the Voice location - wouldn’t it be a pain if, say, 12 other Voices used those same samples. You wouldn’t want it to blow out all of those Voices up just because you are loading in a new VOICE to one location. So samples are kept in spite of you overwriting the VOICE data…

Think about it: several Voices may the same piano waveforms - replacing just one Voice will not remove the samples in all Voices - that, would not be cool.

So if you need to DELETE a specific Sample “Keybank” or DELETE an entire Sample “Waveform”, there are specific JOBs to do that.

Here’s how:
Press [INTEGRATED SAMPLING]
Press [JOB]

If an individual Sample KEYBANK is what you want to eliminate:
Press [F1] KEYBANK
Select the “DELETE” JOB
Press [ENTER]
Select the KEY
You can audition it with [SF1]
Press [ENTER] to execute

If it is an entire WAVEFORM you want to eliminate:
Press [F2] WAVE
Select the “DELETE” JOB
Press [ENTER]
Select WAVEFORM
You can audition it with [SF1]
Press [ENTER] to execute