Diki, you've got me wrong. My response was to Trosha's post(I just don't see him as an evil person). In fact, I don't condone software piracy on any level, no matter how you spin it. I think the MS guys are wrong in that they are using a rival's R&D to help sell their own product. That makes it, at the very least, unethical (and probably illegal). I agree with you that it would be new styles and sounds that would generate interest in the MS for me. Otherwise I'd just take my old A70 controller, a $800.00 laptop, some velcro, and free (as in pirated) styles and soundbanks, and have a nice $800 approximation of a Mediastation (well, not exactly, but it's like that Hundai Azera/Lexus ad, for the difference in $$$, you can hire someone to park it).

Just so we're clear.

chas