Diki.

I totally respect your opinion, but I think your getting a little carried away with yourself.

No open keyboard will sound like a cheap CASIO, it will sound exactly like the VSTi will so I have no idea where you are pulling all that from. Same goes for the sound they come with, there is no requirements to balance any sounds in a VSTi. A VSTi is as complete instrument and it comes just as professionally put together as a closed keyboard does. Quite often the sound designers behind VSTi's are the exact same people behind the closed keyboards. Just look at Eric Persing, owner of Spectrasonics. He's a Roland sound designer who now owns one of the best VSTi companies in the world.

Millions of people use VSTi's everyday right now to make music and that number is growing extremely fast and accelerating. To understand what is coming you need to look at the past. Just look at AKAI for example. They where GOD's in the Sampler world and the S-Series sampler pretty much shaped the history of music in the 80's and 90's. VSTi's killed that off and now look at what they mainly make, VSTi Controllers.

SM Pro Audio, Lionstracs, Open labs and Muse Research are currently the only 4 in the world producing Open Keyboards / Systems for running VSTi's away from the PC, so this is something very new which is geared towards the millions of VSTi users that already exist and who are fed up with the trouble and workflow of a PC. Like all new things there will be those who see the benefits and jump to it like a duck to water, and then there will others who stick their head in the sand. But if there is one obvious truth then the answer to that is in the last 10 years and how quickly VSTi's have caught on and changed the way we make music forever.

So regardless of what you want mate, open keyboards and VSTi's are the future of music so you can stick your head in the sand or open your mind.

Or in time will you be this far disconnected from the NOW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttRL8d039s

Regards
James

[This message has been edited by Irishacts (edited 10-27-2009).]