How about Break/fills? Try playing a few Ray Charles songs without the Breaks. For my use, good breaks/fills are far more important than a Sampler or micro style editor. I can find all the styles I need very easily these days without creating them.
I do agree there should be a Style Creator, but I don't really care, because I won't use it anyway. I do use the facility to revoice, change volumes, mute parts etc., but I haven't had to create any styles since I dumped, I mean sold, my Korg. With that you do need a style creator, because there just isn't much of a variety of the styles I use available.
This could well be the case with those of you wanting more "modern" styles such as hip-hop, ethnic, "dance", etc. If this is the true, then you probably should not consider the Audya until the Style Creator is available.
I suspect than not more than a handful of the people slamming Ketron would buy one if it were perfect in every way (as if that would ever happen with ANY arranger) because of the price. It's o.k. Everybody doesn't need a Mercedes or Lamborghini. That's why Yamaha sells so many Fords.
DonM