Well, to be honest, I'm not criticizing the Audya from a hands on perspective, but I'm not praising it from that either...!

Yes, the demos sound great, but I guess the difference here, Tom, is that I'm NOT criticizing the underlying technology from a 'hands off' perspective. I don't know about you, but I have been using audio loops in music production for over ten years. I am already pretty intimate with what can, and can't be done with these things. I am also pretty informed about how easy/hard they are to produce.

So, just as YOU don't need to have 'hands on' with a keyboard that uses MIDI (you are already pretty familiar with what can and can't be done with MIDI), I don't need 'hands on' on the Audya to realize some of the pitfalls of audio loops.

One of the prime ones being... if a loop doesn't exist for a particular chord type, it can't play it. There are no NTT's for loops. They are what they are, and that's all they can ever be.

I've got to PLAY an Audya before I can talk about this?