Jimmy,

OMB can be used as a live arranger. It uses styles in Yamaha format. It doesn't play midifiles, mp3's or CD's. Although it is used by professional musicians, not many use it as there main tool. That is, in studio's it is used as a pre-production tool to experiment with ideas. And performing artists use it to adjust the styles and create midifiles and try-out the thousands of styles (because you can load them directly from the PC hard drive). Most of them don't carry a PC on stage. If there would be an interest to use it as an on stage tool I could make adjustments. You can try the demo version at www.1manband.nl .

Jos

[This message has been edited by Jos Maas (edited 10-27-2003).]