Imo it really depends on the music you make. In my studio I have a PA80, Tyros, Yamaha P120s, Young Chang Acoustic (Which I dearly love, Hammond Xk3, Yamaha DTexpress drums, Various Roland Samplers and Roland Juno 106 to name a few. Depending on the song I am recording I may use any one of these instuments but more and more I will probably just as often use one of my sample libraries such as EWQLSO, Real Guitar acoustic samples or any number of others because they are so incredibly good. If you can't hardly see a feature film anymore, which are recorded at 196k, without hearing these phenomenmal sample libraries, I do not see it as being debatable any longer. There is just no way that an instument like Tyros, as good as it is, but with about 96mb of sample menory for over 1100 samples is going to be sonically on the same level as something like Real Guitar which uses over 259mb for just 1 Stereo guitar sample. Just my ears opinion. The major mfgrs need to get with it and give us open architecture with style engines so that we can each procure our own favorite sample libraries of our choice. Then it will truly be "your" insturment. Whowever does this first and or best will win. I wlii support them and chunk my other stuff.

Danny

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