dominik,
thanks for your kind wish to sell to me one Mediastation directly to Moscow. Here in Moscow in music shops are present all top models of arrangers (Genesys, Yamaha, Technics, Roland, Korg) exept Ketron SD-1.

But Benno not answered my questions -- he simply refer to free software "all is possible" mantra. Yes, it is all possible to code in open platforms: but what you already coded and what I must to code by myself to provide music rendering with style morphing and karma-like functions? Nor Benno neither you even touch this arranger-specific topics, only general words about Linux/opensource blah-blah-blah in agressive marketing style. I know sufficient about Linux and free software, I want to know what you development effort can add to arrangers technology not in far fuzzy future but today or tomorrow. E.g. tell me, what new music technology (not computer technology! namely music technology) concepts you team incorporated in mediastation. 5000 standard styles -- this is not new technology. Music rendering (inserting nuances sinchronized among several tracks) -- is it here? Or it is standard style player that not render styles but only dump play it as exact midi?

Why you will be negotiating only with VSTi-makers? Why not with KarmaLab (or even MusicLab or Jasminemusic -- commercial rendering leaders)? But there are theoretical difficultes -- KarmaLab have performance time rendering technology, and MusicLab and Jasminemusic have only sequence-editing time rendering technology.

To your "open source" claim. What will be provided in CVS (all software or not all and under what license -- GPL, LGPL, Artistic Soft etc. -- it will be)and in what timing? Where I can see DevelopmentRoadmap -- to join development? And tell me that documentation to style module will be later -- and I can't start to develope alternative style rendering module by myself immideately, but only in never coming future when CVS and documentation will be in place

I will be waiting for your answers -- may be here at arranger forum, may be later at your new website.

And I am think about small investing project: to add some chunks of music learning software to your Mediastation and became VAR of such "music learning Mediastation" here in Moscow. Other keyboards can't accomplish this project right now.

Best regards,
ailev