I think you are primarily referring to Latin styles, aren't you, Lee? Most of what I heard on the T3 sounds pretty good, but I'm no expert in current Latin styles.

Thing is, on a T3, if you find another arranger other than Ketron with a well programmed Latin style section, you can translate it, no problem. But if you want those audio drums and guitars, you are stuck with what Ketron provide, period. They can't be translated (until something else plays audio loops, anyway!), and you can't translate a third party style for the Ketron and still have the audio loops (which, given how good they are, you won't want to take a big step back and use regular MIDI drumkits).

This has always been one of my primary worries about the Audya... when the audio loop styles are SO good, but the ROM library does NOT address your primary performing genre very well, you will have to do a lot of swapping around between 'live loop' styles and FAR lesser MIDI kit styles. You appear to have hit the jackpot when it comes to Latin styles, but for others who don't play primarily that kind of music (mine tends to be reggae and New Orleans type stuff) we are going to have to rely on styles NOT so well programmed.

The trouble will occur as you play some songs with audio loops, and you sound killer, and then some songs with MIDI styles that DON'T. And nobody (I would imagine) wants to play something that inconsistent. When the ROM styles work out well for you, you are OK, but when they don't (or you only have a tiny selection of audio styles to perform your whole show in) you are faced with having payed $5000 for an arranger that you seldom get to play its' strongest stuff.

So before you make blanket statements like "it needs VERY good , well programmed styles (like AUDYA) programmed by REAL musicians that know the music", you really need to qualify that by mentioning the specific genre you are talking about. Because to my ears, and many many others here, an awful lot of the T3 styles are GREAT, and ARE programmed by musicians that 'know the music'.

I just wish they had punchier drums, that's all...