Because the MS does not have the Ketron's hybrid audio/Midi system for eking out more chords than are actually recorded, every single chord type you want will need to have probably six to twelve recordings for it Why so many? Because the pitch shifting only works so far without noticeable artifacts, so you probably need three to cover all twelve scale steps, and then you need two recordings at different speeds (and actually PLAYED at two different tempos, because the same strumming pattern at 140bpm sounds completely different to the same strumming pattern at 90bpm).

So, take every chord in the book, and multiply it by six Now have them ALL instantly available, streamable from HD, and try not to max out the data buss...

I think that Magica may be referring to Real Guitar, or Virtual Guitarist, or any of the guitar 'strum' VSTi's available, rather than doing it all yourself (absurd amount of effort to make even ONE style). The only problem with these is that they are NOT really designed to be realtime tools. They can play, after a fashion, in realtime, but they are glitchy and have latency issues. But none of this matters when their true purpose is to create a control track in a DAW, edit that, and THEN have it play back sample accurate because the DAW is doing the latency compensation.

The only demo I ever heard of someone attempting this on an arranger was for Wersi, and I could hear latency all over it. Before anyone proposes these things as the answer to our dilemma, I would like to hear a 'proof of concept' and have someone trigger these in a real style, and throw some challenging changes at it. I would not be surprised to hear it glitching and 'dragging' just a hair when trying to go realtime...

I have used all of Steinberg's Guitarist series since they came out. They are NOT good at realtime, do NOT have a comprehensive selection of strummed chords, and have a limited selection of styles. And are fairly expensive. Imagine what a COMPREHENSIVE set of rhythms and chords would cost! In acoustic AND electric versions!

What is absurd is that we are even contemplating this, when superb MIDI guitar emulations are already in those poor 'closed' arrangers, and only need a bit more refinement and improvement to be even MORE convincing. Tie what we already HAVE to a bit better sample sets, and you have what the audio loop boys are struggling to achieve, with NO missing chords, no problems with pitch stretching, no problems with weird chords or 'late' chord entry, streaming audio issues ar ANYTHING. Oh, and a HUGE selection of style types already recorded for you.

I just don't see the point...