I've said it before and I'll say it again. For some reason, this forum tends to be too much like a pool hall. There are the regular sharks who hang out and anyone else showing up is challenged and put down. Lots of people have left or frequent other places becuase of the friction on here.

What's saddest is that all any of us really SHOULD strive to get out of this board is the key to being better at what we do with our keyboards, whether they are Rolands, Yammaha's, or Casio's.

I'll agree technology has done a lot of things to improve music production. In contrast, we need to celebrate the technology and share ideas on how to use it creatively to keep "live" music alive for another 10 years.

But when it comes to becoming argumentative, we should just calm down and remember that we each choose the roads we go down and (if we focus on the road we're on) any one of them can lead us to success (as opposed to failure).

R/I