Thanks for the info Frank. Assuming that the sounds are top notch ( no reason to think they won't be ) the single deciding factor for me purchasing it is whether Bandstand can accept program changes or not.

Unfortunately, as you and Rikki pointed out, it has also been my experience that others have claimed their modules / samplers would accept program and bank changes when in reality for the most part they didn't.

Hypersonic is the first that comes to mind. All the updates and supposed fixes and it still doesn't work right. Plugsound made no such claims, and in fact let the buyer know upfront that their modules could not read program changes, so at least I knew going in that they would function strictly as lead voices and studio modules. If Bandstand cannot accurately read program changes, while I'm sure it will be a great sounding module, having the PS series, I probably have enough good sounds already and won't need it.

Not sure what the big deal for these developers is about programming in the ability to accept bank and program changes, but then again I'm not a programmer. I have quite a few vsti's that can do this quite well, including several freewares. Soundfont's do it flawlessly each and every time, but as you aptly stated before Frank, the technology is getting a bit long in the tooth at this point.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 11-08-2005).]