Benno,
I can appreciate what you are saying about mp quality, however the other demos from the other boards I mentioned are also mp's. It is all we have to go on. The PA demos posted were even home studio demos, so I tend to trust those over factory demos that were done under the best conditions.

I too appreciate all the openness of you guys, but for me at least it will take seeing one locally and playing with it.

The problem I have with this "open source Linux community" is that it sounds like a group of Linux techies hacking away when they get a chance to create sounds and programs.

With the major players however secretive they may be, it is their business to turn these things out as well as having the resources and personnel to do so.

I know where Yamaha lives......I don't know where Joe part time Linux programmer does.

Just thoughts, I of course will reserve my final judgements until I lay hands on one of these in Sacramento.

For my advice too, I would not make the same mistake Genysis has IMO. May be a great board and Paul is very cool, but the fact that they cannot be found anywhere puts me off them. I'm not sure why companies do not bite the bullet and say to a local music store, ok, you don't want to buy a demo, fine we'll place a demo in your store free.

One thing certainly seems to be very common here very few will buy a board site unseen, or if we get the feeling, yeah but when it breaks, then what do we do?
Terry

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jam on,
Terry http://imjazzed.homestead.com/Index.html

[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 11-18-2003).]