This demo is of a midi file, it is NOT the arranger section of the MS played AS an arranger. The arranger section of the MS will not sound that good.

For a start Q-Tractor (what Q-Ranger uses) does NOT recognise VST's. I would suspect the OP actually used Ardour or similar.

You need to first create a faux patch list and re-assign patch mappings and then some other trickery to fool Q-Tractor into loading a VST. IE you have to trick it into thinking it is a Giga patch.

Using the PA series (1 or 2) and using an external module (Motif XS) I could within about 15 minutes have styles playing all the sounds of the rack. I can mix and match between the rack and the Korg for live sounds, etc etc etc.

On the PA I could write a style within about an hour. It would be very basic, but at least I would not have to go re-mapping patches and writing new patch maps JUST so I could add one VST sound to the style.

This demo is exactly what I can do on my PC, using VST's and loops within Sonar. It's nothing new. If that was what I bought the MS for I would still have it.

And being a PA2x owner (and a PA1x owner) from an arranger viewpoint the MS is way WAY behind. It does not even use proper MIDI protocols, rather it uses TCP. (Transfer Control Protocols).

But then you have to wait for the manufacturer to re-map all those TCP data so you can even use a basic midi pedal!!!

I repeat other comments that as an arranger you NEED it to be able to play on-bass, slash chord types (for those who still do not know EG Bb/F E/G# F/C) where the bass DIFFERS from the actual chord. The MS cannot do them, you cannot even program them in the so called style editor.

You cannot use the arranger over the full keyboard. It only works in split mode.

The MS is NOT an arranger and please do not try to talk about something you nothing about, but feel you have to champion the MS cause like some mis-understanding Don Quixote.

If it were not so heavy and cumbersome and expensive (talking our money here NOT Euros), I MIGHT have kept it JUST to play VST's and as a sort of controller keyboard.

But with other MAJOR operational facets either not working, not working as advertised or causing the OS to crash, it was not worth any further grief.

Some of you people make me laugh. You have not so much as touched a MS, but here you all are saying how wonderful it is, how great it is, it is such a good and great arranger.

All I say is go an buy one, try to figure out even how to START using it (there is no serious manual apart from what the buttons are, and even then some of those do not work anymore because the OS has changed so much) and then try to program.

THEN come back here and extol the virtues of the MS as an arranger. I think the cobwebs will well and truly have grown large by that time.

Luckily I have a pretty logical mind, so with what scant information there was, trial and error, and the on/off switch I figured it out. And help from Magica.

Dennis