Diki,
Just because the demos of the MS may be less than stellar doesn't mean the board's not capable of producing good quality. Lionstracs is a small company. There's the good and bad. The most obvious is Dom doesn't have the financial resources of the big three, so a team of demo production specialists may not be within his reach due to cost. I think the demos out there at least give an "idea" of what the units can do, and that's the whole purpose of a demo. It's to give an idea of the unit can do. Again the quality of that "idea" rests heavily on available funds.

However with the big 3 you'll never get the level of customer service as you do from Dom. How many keyboard companies have the CEO problem sovling directly with the customer? How many CEO's show up at your door step to help (as Dom has done).

The MS is an awesome unit, and I think the biggest hold back for it in the arranger community is the word "computer". The MS is basically a killer midi controller built around a computer. The MS has an indepth operating system and is capable of doing things that would put closed system arrangers to shame. However these features aren't known because arranger buyers are commmonly looking for the "out of box" type unit. Often IMO I find that arranger players don't want to fiddle with indepth editing and a "computer like" operation system. Sometimes saying the word "midi" here is like yelling FIRE in a crowded room

I think that "out of the box" expectation is a definitive line between the arranger player and synth player. Synth players like to "program", and "edit" until our fingers can't take it no more Arranger players IMO often look for the "instant gratification" and there's nothing wrong with that either. Just two different sides of the music world of performers really.