Jick Duck, you are getting into areas I know little about. I believe however you should not be experiencing the faults you have identified in the demo. If I were you I would try and Email N. Stellberg and explain what is happening and see if he can solve these issues.

If that does not work then you may need to use other alternatives. Have you tried OMB? How does it work on your system? By the way if you are not stuck on Yamaha styles, there are a number of other reasonable style players:

Evolution (style support small)
Music Companion
JammerLive (not Windows XP compatible)
RMCA (not so good)

I just received a response from Soundtrek that they may begin work on JammerLive in December 2003 - but they said that last year at this time - and nothing happens.

I have just been contacted via Email by N. Stellberg to try a version of Live - Styler where you can call up NI's B4 and control it via Live - Styler. This is all very interesting and exciting. The more things are tried the more innovation we as users will realize. Although, my first inclination as stated previously is to have the producers of such software focus on very robust style players and other related arranger functions (harmonies, etc.) and less on esoteric things. This is especially true given that you can do most sampler, synth and effects things using a host such as forte Ensemble. Yes, and an excellent XG to GM converter built in would be nice


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 11-12-2003).]