I heard thru the grapevine of 'rumor' , that instead of developing XGWorks further, Yamaha, will be offering OPT 'plug in' software which will add 'Yamaha specific' enhancements to Cakewalk Sonar. My primary midi/audio sequencer of choice is Cakewalk Sonar, as it already provides 'instrument definitions' for all my keyboards (including the Tyros), so my ONLY real need for XGWorks is for accessing & editing Yamaha exclusive 'XF chord name' data, which is not recognized by Cakewalk Sonar. I like the idea of the new Yamaha-Cakewalk OPT 'plug in' approach as it will effectively allow us to sequence exclusively in one program: Sonar!

My Tyros keyboard comes with an impressive PC Windows based 'voice editor' which allows you to edit Tyros voices from your PC (via USB connection), but an OPT Voice Editing 'plug in' would more conveniently allow keyboard 'voice editing' to be performed from within Cakewalk Sonar.

I'm hoping that Steve Deming at Yamaha USA might read this and clarify what the future plans of XGWorks are, as well as tell us if/when Yamaha plans to release OPT plug in software which will add Yamaha 'XF file' support and 'voice editing' capabilities from within Cakewalk Sonar. Thanks in advance. Scott