Bluezplayer, I agree with many of your comments. In addition, I would say to DNJ that I am so used to my setup that I can move as quickly as anyone on a hardware based arranger system. Yes the control surface is not as good but you can work around it and can get the job done quite nicely.

Furthermore, you may know that NI are working on Bandstand to provide a smaller wavetable that will load instantly in their next update. In addition, you will have the choice of the larger wavetable where higher quality of sound my be required. I will likely not relinquish my use of kontakt and very large (high quality) samples for my lead instruments. Of late I have been making use of the scripting features in kontakt (harmonizers, echoes, repeats, and so on)....very exciting.


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 04-25-2006).]