What's more important is to listen PAST the playing, and try to concentrate on that style. Does ANYONE here think that it swings? Would anyone here use that style if it was in their arranger? I certainly wouldn't.

And Genesys, you definitely have a point. Who, in their right minds, that would buy an arranger would buy an MS..? It isn't an arranger. It is a WS with arranger features, but little in the way of content or sounds even compared to a Big 3 WS, either. And, (once again bringing up the point) although you COULD make unbelievably good music on it, where are these recordings? Who actually HAS?

You can listen to the radio every day and hear MotifXS patches, FantomG patches, Oasys patches, M3 patches. And you know that these patches ARE Big 3 patches, because a) you heard some of them on the factory demos, and b) you heard them from being able to play the darn things in the local store.

It's all well and good to say you COULD make great music on an MS, but without proof and example, it's all theoretical. I could tell you all that if I go outside the house, and stick my arms up in the air, I will take off like Superman! And as long as no-one asks to actually SEE me do it, why shouldn't it be true?

Because you are all not fools, that's why!

Dom has come to a forum of hardcore arranger users. And claimed the MS can fly like Superman (in effect). But so far, little in the way of any proof. Maybe if Superman picked it up and flew, that's about the only way it can...

It sure seems to need a Superman of a keyboard player/programmer to do so, and they sure don't seem to have been the guys actually buying the MS...

And lastly, one has to worry about the health of a company that is SO strapped for cash-flow that they can't even spare ONE unit to be loaned out to a first-call demo maker (like those on the Yamaha demos). If you are running that close to margin, it doesn't take much to go under. I understand his clients may be clamoring for orders to be filled (although why he is almost giving some of those X76's away doesn't seem to bear out the 'I can't spare one for a good demo-er' bull), but he'd have a LOT more orders to fill if he spared one from the line to make the demos that might actually prove the product's worth.

I hope that things ARE going well for Dom. The more competition, the better. But a lot of things leave you scratching your head and going 'WTF is he thinking?'