Look, I'm sorry, but anyone who has struggled to make a converted style sound as good on their 'closed' arranger as it did on the native one it came from already knows...

It is a frustrating, difficult, and often impossible task. After MUCH work, I have few conversions that really compete with the best of the ROM styles in my G70... Some get close, some still get used because I don't have anything close to that style, but it is rare that a conversion (unless it is some bog stupidly simple legacy style from years ago) satisfies the way the good ROM ones do. There is simply too great a connection between the data for the Part, and the sound/s it is played on. Velocity responses, sample crossover points, timbral content, envelope response, all of these things have a VERY pronounced way of affecting how you play a sound. Now take that playing, and use a different (but similar) sound, on a different synth, with different characteristics, and you end up with a totally different sounding performance. Now multiply that by ALL the tracks in the style, and multiply it MUCH more by the drumkit, where each and every sound in the kit has all the above problems...

That is the task you are faced with when getting an MS. Only way around it is to use either it's ROM styles (not exactly stellar, by comparison to T3, etc.) or Live Styler, in which case, you are using only legacy PSR styles from a decade ago, into a soundfont of legacy Yamaha sounds. In other words, you are using a TOTL arranger to sound like a MOTL PSR from over ten years ago... And if you want to route those into better sounding VSTi's, you are faced with the 'translation dilemma' that you have doing ANY conversion on ANY arranger.

The proof of the pudding, for me, comes via the complete lack of much user music that uses these tools. You would think, by now, that IF it was possible to use Live-Styler and connect easily to quality VSTi's for a better than PSR experience playing Yamaha styles, the web would have EXPLODED with happy owners going 'LOOK! It finally works!'. To my mind, I haven't even seen the FACTORY manage this trick, yet. The Live-Styler demos up there certainly didn't make me want to sell my G70 and go out and buy one of these... If I wanted to sound like a 10 year old PSR, I can go buy a used one for about $100

I already KNOW you can get great RH sounds using VSTi's. But primarily, I buy an arranger for how good the STYLE parts sound. The thought of playing a GIGAsampler piano part on an emulation of a PSR doing the styles doesn't make any SENSE.

Yamaha doesn't sell the T3 devoid of great styles and go 'use PA2Xpro conversions (and do them yourselves)'. Ketron doesn't try to sell the Audya by going 'program your OWN audio styles'... They know the market all too well. In what, four years or more of coming here, Dom has STILL to recognize this aspect of his customers. He wants US to change, not HIM...

Ketron users are apparently happily snapping up a new, very expensive arranger that can't edit ANYTHING AT ALL, yet... But the styles sound AMAZING! That is what arranger owners want. Do THAT, and then add all the other stuff, people will plow over you in the rush to buy one! Don't, and you have to start pretending it is a WS and sell to a totally different market...