MUCH better demos, Domenik, but until you start to get velocity switched drums in there (presumably not used much, yet?) there is a lack of dynamics that all other high end arrangers have, especially Rolands (IMHO).

Mediumr1.mp3 is a case in point. Absolutely robotic in feel, have a listen to those snare fills. No dynamics at all, sounds like a drum machine from the 80's.

If you map that style to a good GIGA drumset, it is still going to have no dynamics. The whole point of multi-velocity drums is that no two hits sound identical. And as it gets louder, it's timbre changes. If the style has no dynamics in the first place, you are going to have to completely re-work it to stop even a GIGA kit from sounding 80's. Best to do the work now.

Have your style developer run those drum parts through a GIGA kit BEFORE he signs off on it, if that is going to be the basis for styles in the future, It will save you a lot of work down the line.

And did I get you wrong, or are you going to be able to use VST as well as GIGA for the styles in the future? Your last post only mention GIGA. I'm a huge fan of BFD, and would really like to be able to use it live!

On the whole, I thought those styles you posted were a big improvement on what Fran is posting (please stop him from messing your business up any further than he has already done!), but in all fairness, they still don't compare to the T2's or Roland G70/E80's. If you presume (probably very likely) that most potential buyers of an expensive arranger like the MS (of course we will want it fully loaded!) already have home systems capable of VST, GIGA and recording, etc., the only thing we are likely to need the MS for is to be able to go out live and do the same thing. But until the styles are BETTER than Roland and Yamaha, most of us probably consider the styles to be more important than the sound they are played through, given how good the T2 and E80 already sound, and are going to prefer great styles over great sounds.

I don't know if your eastern or middle eastern styles absolutely rock! or whether the bar never was that high in the first place, but here in the west, you have a tough job to better your competition in that primary need. Don't give it second place to any other priority. It is the ONE thing that will determine if you succeed or fail in the arranger market...