Perhaps you've been in a cave this whole thread, Lee, but some of those BK loops sound just fine. Those come in under $1000...
And sorry, but ProTools? Really? To get a bit of variety in a fill, you have to export the loop to ProTools, chop it into its component parts, reassemble, cross fade all the edits, hope there's no phasiness, reimport it into a custom style and save the style as a custom one?
My audience doesn't give a toss whether it's a $4000 Audya or a $1000 Roland. If they go home happy, that keyboard (and I!) did its job. I don't do NH gigs (thanks for ignoring all the times I've mentioned that) and have done plenty of weddings.
Maybe you NEED all that... me, I'm capable of doing the job with most things.
Look, I get it. You LOVE your Audya. But it doesn't change the FACTS about how inflexible they are. I'm getting REALLY tired of being told that assembling styles out of all the parts of other styles makes a NEW style. Or that to alter one fill, you have to ReCycle the original loop and create a new fill to be re-imported (love to hear some of that!). No amount of partisanship can alter just how inflexible audio loop use is, nor how few styles there are for it. Be honest, Lee. Just how many ORIGINAL styles for the Audya have you made? Or are you content with the factory styles, and have done with it?
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