Isn't everybody tired of the 'you don't get it' comments from everybody seeking to excuse the MS's lack of quality content?

Personally, I think it is they who have not 'got it'... I honestly doubt there is a single person on this entire forum (including myself) capable of creating sufficient styles on it to gig with at a quality that exceeds my humble G70, let alone a T3 or PA2.

Look, everybody already HAS an arranger with no content... Simply erase ALL the ROM styles from your arranger (if you can). Now how useful is it? And how long do you think it would take you to create enough to gig on? Remember, no cheating and loading up third party styles already developed for your arranger... pretend, like the MS, that you have to do it ALL yourself, and use ONLY third party styles developed for a DIFFERENT arranger that you have to tweak extensively yourself...

Look, we 'get' what the MS is good at... but how many of us 'get' exactly what WE ourselves are going to have to do to make the MS as useful and fun as a closed arranger..?

Let's be honest... if the market really DID want an arranger that you had to style yourself, the Big3 would sell them without styles for less money! After all, Dom has shown that building the hardware, and creating the OS is the EASY part. But creating the content is the hardest part, maybe even the most expensive part if you want T3 and PA2 quality... I'm pretty sure THEIR market research is based on actual research, not some kind of vague hope and crossing of fingers

A TOTL arranger without TOTL content, where you do all the work yourself probably appeals to a tiny percentage of the whole market. And of that tiny percentage, I would be VERY surprised if more than a tiny percentage of even those actually DO have the skills and abilities to deliver on it's potential. Everybody likes to THINK that they could do it, if need be. But I seriously doubt they can, push comes to shove.

Try this.... go and make a dozen styles for your CURRENT arranger, as good as the ROM ones (from scratch, mind you, no reassembling existing styles). If you can do that to your own satisfaction (be honest), then you are ready for the MS. Of course, take how long it took you into account, and then extrapolate for the several hundred styles that you in all probability use right now...

Pretty daunting...

So.... we all 'get' ".....if you want JUST an arranger keep your G70 which is more then capable". The trouble is, do YOU get that we want it to be what it is AS WELL as being a great arranger as we all know it to be? Do you REALLY want an arranger where you will have to do all the work before you can gig or enjoy it at the level of a Big3 TOTL, or do you you (as well as I) really want all that the MS does AND all the convenience of your current arranger?

Because if you don't, why not go ahead and erase all those styles you have now? Give yourself a taste of the 'reality' of owning an MS, rather than the 'potential' of it! And maybe save yourself a chunk of money...

Dom has built an amazing machine, with incredible potential. But now is the time to put it in the hands of those with the skills to make styles that rival the best. Pay the price, Dom. Hire the best. What it costs you will MORE than adequately be recouped by the HUGE chunk of the market that would now actually use and enjoy their purchase when they get it, rather than at some indeterminate, highly doubtful time in the future. In other words, why not make it appeal to the OTHER 98% of arranger users rather than just 2%?

Doesn't ANYONE 'get' this..?