I don't get it? With a controller and a laptop, you could produce whatever you could produce with the Mediastation. So why the clammer for a piece of music created on the MS? Unless that piece of music involved MS STYLES, or the MS had really crappy hardware (A/D,D/A converters, clock, DSP, etc.), I don't know what it would prove. Maybe I'm just dense (come to think of it, I probably am). Sooooo, if what we really mean is that we want to hear something that was created using MS STYLES, then we should say so. .....except that we already know that the native MS styles aren't uh, exceptional. Sure sounds like much ado about nothing, to me.

We already know that the MS is for a niche market. If you want an innovative, new, and powerful tool for creating music, the MS 'might' be for you; if you're looking for a tried and proven TOTL ARRANGER, you should probably look elsewhere. I've said from the beginning that I think that the MS sounds like a great workstation with some 'arranger' functions. When you look at it like that, what's not to like. Wish I had one (fully loaded) right now in place of my Fantom G7......I think.

chas