The post from @Schnork said “yes”, I would like to disagree and say “no”, if I didn’t misunderstand the question … why …
We have two machines for playing samples.
- The “Flex-Machine” needs to load samples into RAM and works from there. Because the amount of samples in RAM is quite limited and because all flex-machines have to share the same storage space, we can only load a limited amount of audio.
- The “Static-Machine” streams audio directly from the mass storage (flash-drive).
Generally speaking both machines can do quite the same with samples. The static-machine is not supposed to play-back samples only. Most of the sample-mangling functionality is available too. Slicing, time stretching, pitch shifting etc. is possible.
Here a link to a post discussing differences …