Well, the original recording has pickups and fills... if the MIDI file sucks, that's hardly a justification for the style doing the same Thanks for posting the demo... Now, honestly, do you think this really represents any kind of quantum leap forward in arranger sound?

I anxiously await the demos of the MS doing Ketron styles In all fairness, if they are as unimpressive as all the demos so far posted using Yamaha styles, I don't think that Ketron is going to sweat. But you have to understand the copyright issue. Let us get VERY fanciful here, and just pretend that the MS ends up actually being able to do the Ketron styles, better than Ketron's themselves (as unlikely as that seems). But let's assume it, though...

What happens to Ketron, should their body of content be copied? Would Ketron sales suffer, as a result? No-one's going to buy a Ketron if the MS does it as well (or better) and does so much more TOO... So what happens to Ketron's styles? They dry up, of course. They stop being made, and NOW what use is your software?

But, the bottom line is, just like the Yamaha style player (and the failed T2 clone project, from years ago) is that the hype is never going to match reality. Yamaha styles on the MS fail to impress at all, and one can reasonably conclude that the Ketron project will go the same route.

But, should they ever succeed, don't discount the harm that leeching of of others' copyrighted content could do to the industry. I am SURE that Dom would be concerned if someone successfully reverse engineered the entire MS project, and posted full details about it for free on the Web so you could make your own MS clone without paying him a red cent for all his work. Copyright infringement is a FAR more complex issue than most here would LIKE it to be...