Esh, my those are exciting rumours/news concerning the emerging world of Yamaha. I for one can't wait for the day that the big guys get into this in a big way and get the job done right. I would galdly see my flr2006 become obsolete and embrace a better new world in music making devices and support.

I have done some more testing of individual instruments in NI Bandstand and find they sound every bit as good as those in any top of the line hardware based keyboards including the pianos. I think the pianos are sampled by NI in fact. However, it is not as good as Ivory or Akoustic. You know when you sit down and play one of these virtual acoustic instruments .... it feels & sounds so close to the real thing. It feels so good to play such instruments with high quality accompaniment of drums (brush), bass, piano and say trumpet ensemble. It is really really really good. I am excited about all of this and the news or rumours you provided....how exciting.

An interesting aside, I can't load these instruments into kontakt. It reminds me to get a newer version of kontakt....I have the newest version. The first sign that one may not beable to replace instruments within Bandstand.

It turns out I have one or two of the following problems in my system with NI Bandstand:

Midi loop between Live-Styler and Bandstand or...

Note off messages required by Bandstand in all cases within the Auto Accompaniment.


I did not have any of this with LiveSynth Pro and Live-Styler. I will get to work with the various parties and get this solved. I will try OMB later on and see if it suffers the same fate with Bandstand. You know I want Bandstand to work within my system. It makes for a consistent, elegant and high quality system of hardware and software. Again, I think it will happen!!!!


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 11-23-2005).]