Alfa, Domenik, everybody else pushing the MS. Prove me wrong.... PLEASE!

You MUST realize by now just how much squeak is in the minority. VERY, very few of us program our own styles. Sure, a FEW of us might be willing to do some fine tweaking on a style that is 'nearly there', but you can count how many here are willing to roll their own entire style collection on the thumbs of one hand!

What few of us that are complaining about restrictive OSs in the Big 3's TOTL arrangers aren't the market you are needing. The only way to beat the big boys is to offer capabilities beyond their offerings WITHOUT making us compromise on styles to achieve it.

But asking us to want an 'open system' arranger WITHOUT top-of-the-line styles being provided puts it in the hands of the tiny, tiny fraction of arranger users that DO want to roll their own. Maybe you think staying tiny and niche market is good for the company. But the reason Yamaha et al have such big budgets for style development is because they sell to the majority of players that want an arranger.

Sure, we'd LOVE to have better features, too, but first and foremost we want great styles. The only people you hear griping about poor features are the ones that AREN'T griping about poor styles. Without the great styles, who cares about the features...?

We've gone round and round this topic before, but despite several software and soundware revisions, the MS is still, OOTB, a poor comparison to even a PSR3k. At four times the price. If you have ever wondered why this keyboard does not already dominate the market, you ONLY have to listen to the styles - and by the way, you do not need a fancy demo, but you DO need better sounding styles, nobody cares how good the soloist is on the top of the style, but anyone can listen to a style and hear a dog!

Touting the MS's ability to play Yamaha styles (poorly in comparison to a Yamaha) only begs the question 'well, why not just get a Yamaha, and sound BETTER?'

That's a question I'd like to hear an answer to... (other than a Nigel Tufnell-esque 'Yeah......, but these go to 11!)