Well, there you go again, Dom... (only Reagan quote you'll ever get from me!)

Here we are, talking MUSIC, and here you are babbling techno-jive. You just don't get it, do ya? We don't give a rats whether there are 8 bit converters or a V12 under the hood...

We care what it sounds like. 24 bit crap sounds worse than 12 bit great music. Period. And yes, everybody sequences demos. They sequence them from arranger play, then edit, whatever. So do most of us, at least those using them for recording and writing purposes, and many live users are a mix of arranger and sequenced. So please, don't comne on all high and mighty.

Stop quoting some technical bull, and start to realize that we don't care. We care the MOST about what the demos sound like, because it gives us an accurate idea of what is the BEST that the machine could sound. Great players and programmers, making the most of the onboard sounds and styles.

So far, you haven't given us a CLUE about what is the BEST the MS can sound. In fact, you've given many of us what we hope is the WORST it could (Lord help us if it could sound even worse in our hands! ).

Just hire someone as good as Ketron have used, to make demos for your arranger... On board sounds, styles and grooves. Beat the Ketron demos, or no-one in their right mind is going to think the MS is better. No matter HOW many chip facts, bitrate comparisons or other technobabble you spout.

REAL musicians don't care. They don't have to. They can hear it in the demos. But if the demos suck, none of us are going 'wow! listen to those converters! that's the most pristine sounding crap I ever heard!'