Hehehe, maybe I'll see if I can bring it back OT, then.
Nothing much has changed, I still don't have time to program the XL, so it's not providing much benefit.
A friend of mine has an Akai sampler (S3000) and Korg Wavestation AD he's not using, so I'll borrow them for a few months and see how they fit into my setup. I owned an AD before I got the Virus, so I'm generally familiar with the sounds and have plenty of patches and a Bass ROM card to make use of, I just don't remember how good it was for pads and sounds that the Snow can't do very well. The Akai should be pretty useful for looping, plus I can sample the Snow sounds and cheat a bit.
EG