т.к. это цитата роджера линна, то я подозреваю что так оно и есть, а не "хм ну может"

как выяснилось, это особенность новых аппаратов, ничего не поделаешь (на 1000-м такая же ерунда):

The MPC1000 hardware structure only can read one side of the ram chip or two banks if I'm not mistaken, (someone hear can confirm the right reason) anyway.. it will only read half of the Ram so there fore if you use 128 only 64MB will show up on your MPC1000. This is why we use 256MB so that 128MB shows up.

older mpcs take a single bus memory chip SIMM (single inline memory module) the mpc1000 was not built like that. for some reason akai made the 1k to take dual bus memory chip DIMM (dual inline memory module) but it only utilizes half of that. I think they did it like that because no one uses and barely manufactures SIMMs anymore so they had to use updated technology, DIMMs. also, when you have a computer that use SIMM mem chips you have to buy two so to get 128mb you have to buy two 64mb chips. you also have to think about this: the 1k is smaller than all other mpcs and they probably didn't have the room to fit 2 standard size mem chips (another reason why they went this route) the SODIMM memory is standard laptop memory and it fits somewhat on the outside of the machine (not directly on the motherboard).

p.s. у меня в 2000xl стоит 32, и сэмплер выдает что стоит 32. ну и соответственно время сэмплирования из расчета на 32 метра тоже.