trying to fill a flash card with sounds

and it only samples using the internal memory, anyway to get it to notice the ram and sample from that? otherwise I keep running loe on sample memory.?

did you format the card before using it?

You can't sample direct to CF. Try making a sample, saving it, then "purge" all samples not in a program. Or create a program, save it, then delete all programs not in a sequence. both will free up RAM space to continue working.