Chas and Bill,

You guys are spot on!

After almost 20 years of follow-up arranger clinics, both in home and in store, I have learned that the majority of arranger buyers are as you describe.

Most never learn how to make a style, or edit voices...most of my efforts were concentrated on teaching them how to use the on-board recorder, registration memory, or, as of late, how to make an MP3 from the audio to USB recorder.

A lot of correspondence I get is for more styles, not new sounds or samples...they seem quite satisfied with the on-board sounds.

A very small, and I mean VERY SMALL, number of home arranger users would ever get involved with VST as they are now.

They are too complicated for the average arranger user.

In my experience, playing rather than programming seems to be most important to the vast majority of arranger owners.

Good posts, guys.

Ian