I have been sitting on my hands staying out of this repeated debate with no end in sight. But i just could not stay quiet as this debate meanders accross arguments over what constitutes a professional keyboard player, a home player, people great at making styles, who shoul be insulte from who shouldnt etc . None of this has anything to do with the problem , and it is a very obvious problem with the marketing of the Ms.

The MS has bags of potential , no one is denying this. All someone has to do is look at the spec and the monthly updates coming out of MS. However .....listen with your ears and tell me if you would be confident in purchaseing one today, not when it actually fulfills its potential but right now ?? I get the integration argument, genuinley i do.(but the integration must result in a great sounding aranger yes ? ) I get the speed of loading huge giga samples (even the free ones shipped with the instrument , genuinely i do ( but the use of fast loading giga samples must result in a great sounding arranger yes ? ), I get the concept of continually updatable software and the potential for a single purchase lasting a life time. This is potentially my dream keyboard. But i just cant get past the problem of my ears and the problem with the credibility of the instrument in real use today when the manaufacture cannot seem to make the instrument sound even as good as its competitors. Scratch that ...even as good as the radio shack keyboard.

This whole discussion would be killed dead in its tracks if either liontracks or individuals would actually demonstrate the quality of the instrument today with good demos .Can we stop pushing the "potential" argument , as its more than wearing thin right now. If i were a professional arranger player i would not sell my services based upon my potential to sound great for your booking but post poor demos on my website to promote my services so why am i expeted to buy an instrument that i would use to make a living based upon its potential to sound good having poor demos to base that decision upon ?

Diki posted some demos of the instrument from the companies website showing a style with an incredibly poor guitar ( that was not the only thing poor about the style). Did anyone actually listen to the style ????? Well did you ???? Are you telling me that your ears could not hear how poor that was ? Dom , explain how this gives confidence to potential customers ?????This was something the manufacturer put up for musicians like you and me to have confidence in the "potential " of the instrument.....

Its not even funny anymore.

Now we have hijacked this thread enough, lets either post on topic or move to the other Mediastation thread if we want to dance this ridiculous dance again.