Yes I learned through reading up on these software synths I mentioned that Reason while having good features included is limited in upgradability to what Propellerhead offers . Uploading samples is equally limited to only those that are in the Sound Font 2 format . They say that they are working on an update that would allow for the import of Akai samples as well .

yeah v.2 of Project 5 has many improvements and as you say is much more open ended about the instruments , Applications and samples it can run .

I'll check out Orion too .