Frankie,

Yes I prefer a compact box with everything in it for a cheap price. I don't need the "magic" or "character" from Yamaha. Being a software developer I can put that in their myself. BTW I haven't seen much magic happening the last decades. Instead of designing new sounds they are mainly packing wave ROM with sounds of instruments that were designed by talented craftsman in passed centuries, I mean the ones that developed the piano, trumpet and saxophone.

Musikman

You should at least see the different fill in's at level A, B, C and D if they are included in the style. Other fill in's like fill in AB and fill in BA are used too if you combine a fill in trigger with a higher/lower level trigger at the same time. But again they must be present in the style.

I don't see OMB 5.0 as an appropiate tool to produce CD's. Version 6.0 will be that. It will include a new multi style sequencer like XG Works. You can select the parts of up to 10 styles in one sequence. And it won't have any presumption wether a part is a main or fill in, so you can play a complete song with merely fill in's if you like.

About the "goldmine", I have no illusions of getting rich. OMB is completely unknown among the broad public. I'm sure that if Yamaha released it, they would sell a 1000 times the numbers I'm selling. I don't have the marketing instruments they have.

Jos