I still think the MS is a great keyboard.., and always have been behind Dom on this unit.., I still feel it's not marketed to the right group of keyboard players.

Just out of curiousity though..., Fran mentions (unless I read it wrong) using an XG VST to drive those styles. Curious about something......, on a "state of the art TOTL arranger" such as this, are you going forward or backwards using that type of sound set to drive these styles?

The Media-Station is a step or two forward.., but you take 5 steps backwards when you use that old dated XG soundset to drive styles. If that's the sound you're after.., save yourself the time and money and just buy a bloody PSR.

If Dom had the bills to hire a very experienced group of style writers the MS would be catching a lot more attention. The preset styles themselves are quite poor.., so the whole concept now rests on using the styles made by other companies....????? Sorry.., but I think that's a little shotty to have to rely on the work already done by the major three because the presets themselves provided by Lionstracs are not up to par with the rest.

Dom IMO should be reaching out to WS owners. Dom has created the ultimate workstation. The MS is a WS powerhouse.., and it doesn't run on Windows! Dom has created a TRUE fully integrated SYNTH/WORKSTATION/ARRANGER that runs VST appliations and more. All the WS junkies out there (not to offend anyone here either) are probably way more likely to take advantage of creating USER STYLES..., as they're already used to scratching out the majority of the work they're doing now on the WS's.

It's clear that Yamaha has even rubbed a little of the line away as the Motif XS's new arps have been noted by users AND YAMAHA as having an ARRANGER LIKE FEEL with the chord recognition. Dom's MS's takes it all the way where Yammie and the others won't go! I can't tell you how many times I've seen WS owners flat out say they'd love to have arranger features on their synths and the ability to jump back and forth between BOTH recording platforms. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE MS IS!!!!!

Regardless.., MOST arranger players are looking for OUT OF THE BOX PRESET STYLES PROVIDED BY THE KEYBOARD MAKER AND NOT WANTING TO DEAL WITH CONVERTING THE WORK OF SOMEONE ELSE TO GET GOOD STYLES.

Converting tons of Yamaha styles on a TOTL MS that utilize an EXTREMELY OLD AND DATED XG sound IMO is pointless and is not groud breaking in sound by any means. It's just using a very expensive TOTL workstation to sound like a much cheaper PSR (Even TYROS styles will sound MUCH CHEAPER using an XG format)

All the MS owners are saying these converted styles are great..., well PLEASE POST them. Many of us would love to hear these..., you don't even have to play anything yourself. Just show how well the converted style sounds on the MS. Hell.., Lion's track for damn sure ain't doing this.

I'm sorry if some of you MS owners feel a little overwhelmed by demo requests.., but what are Dom's potential customers supposed to rely on.., HIS online demos.. need I say more on that one.


[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 06-03-2009).]