Hi all,

As we all know, there's 2 kinds of arranger users. I suppose Frank and I belong to the ones that don't do life performances and are more into seeking the ultimate in "auto-accompaniment sound" as such. Life performers (both at home or onstage) foremost need stability and 'instant gratification'. Two different approaches, usages and 'quests' altogether.

However...and this exactly is my point ...the systems of both these arranger user-types show a clear tendency to merge;

My humble guess is that the next wave in arrangers will offer some form of HD streaming samples, simply because this constitues the next wave in "acoustic reality'.

This is what Frank and I are trying to frickle out of our combined systems today.

Obviously the "instant gratificatos" will always need hardware controllers, but that's what the arrangers are already becoming :
button pushing controllers for an ever more open internal streaming softsynth & sampler.
That's also what softwynth affectionados are using : harward controlers to avoid a mouse clicking nervous breakdown.

All what's needed is combining/interfacing two markets into one product: software arrangers with software streaming samplers.

The Wintel hardware needed for a software only 'instant' arranger is available already;

What's lacking is an interest from the small software sampler vendor market to look into the small arranger market and maybe differentiate their product line from a 'studio/film composer only' focus into also developing an arranger oriented module/interface.

Or maybe the - even smaller - software arranger companies (see Frank's suggestions) should talk to softsampler vendors like Tascam/Gigastudio to take the current 'tweakerish' sample arranging to the 'instant level'

Ahhh, we all have our dreams.