And that is NOT 'bashing it'?

Here's the problem. I tell it the way I see it, and it's 'bashing'. You agree with me on some points, and it's NOT...

What's the point of an arranger without ONE good style (IYO )? Just because there are 'some' good sounds in it? At that price, me, I'd want them ALL to be good, not good after I have spent another thousand dollars or more on high quality VSTi's...

As I keep saying - when the promise of this is fulfilled, I will be first on my block to buy one. Until then, I'm just here to keep saying 'the Emperor has no clothes' until he GETS some. He can keep telling you over and over about how magnificent his costume is (and how awful ours are, too!), but if you keep looking hard, you'll see that it's still bare flesh...

Now, if you can grow cotton, and weave your own yarn, make cloth, cut it and make a suit from scratch, this may be the thing for you. Me, I kind of expect a bit more 'off the shelf', 'ready to wear' than this... It's not that I don't mind a BIT of work to get things personalized, but having to start from scratch, or do major surgery to convert non-native styles to the MS strikes me as a bit much, especially at that price.

So, as I say, I don't consider it 'bashing'... just a reality check, past the hype and on to the facts. At least to my ears (and apparently yours too), this one ain't ready for the big leagues unless you ARE capable of making your own style library for it. I've heard hundreds of 'conversion' styles, on all kinds of arrangers. NOT ONE of them ever sounded better on the new arranger than the original. There's something about the sound and the playing being as one, that playing a part on a different sound always sounds inferior to it on the original. If the playing is any good, anyway...

Dom needs to bite the bullet, and bundle the MS with a REALLY good VSTi already loaded. Colossus, something like that. THEN develop ALL the styles for a sound set that is ALREADY far superior to a T2 or the like, not develop them for the semi-good set that exists, then expect the user to chose a whole bunch of different VSTi's, and then try to convert these styles for it himself. Styles always sound best on the sound they were created with (and great sounds would inspire his style creators, too).

Yes, it would jack up the price of the MS, but let's face it, nobody in their right minds is going to get this, and then NOT spend a large chunk on VSTi's. Might as well pay upfront, and at least have styles developed specifically for it...

But what do I know...? I'm just a 'basher', apparently