And therein lies the problem... Perhaps a Linux engineer CAN'T make it any simpler, but a MUSIC engineer would know it has to be...

He would know his market, and realize that most of these people (musicians) haven't got a clue about print servers, yet alone most of the technobabble that instruments like this make you confront. The reason that arrangers are wildly popular is that they DON'T make you confront the nuts and bolts of the instrument's design. You turn it on, you press Bossa Nova 1, hit the OTS button and play - and the instrument sounds the best it CAN sound. NOT after you have loaded up the (hopefully) compatible VST instrument of your choice and jacked this into that, opened two incompatible sound players together, wired the effect sends from one VSTi into the inputs of another VST reverb and software routed the outputs of that back into a control matrix so you can control reverb depth with an onboard slider... (I'm exhausted just thinking that up!)

Of all the things to tie complexity of that degree to... an arranger?!! It's kind of like getting Bugatti to design a dump-truck.

It's like watching a traffic accident... Guys like Ian (who demo and sell arrangers) are going 'take all the complicated stuff off', and guys like Domenik (who build them) going 'look at all the complicated stuff I've put on'!

And all the rest of going 'we want all the good stuff... just make it moronically easy to use'.

I guess NOONE wins...