Nobody, to my knowledge is 'banned' here, Tony. At least, not recently. In fact, notice Boo's reappearance? LOL

All that is happening is those that cannot tell the difference between disagreement and downright personal rudeness and character attacks are given some time away to reconsider their grammar..! But a complete ban? Haven't seen one of those in ages.

I think, TBH, if you take a look back in the archives, you'll see on the whole, nothing has changed. This has ALWAYS been a 'mine's better than yours' forum..! We haven't really added a whole lot of new members (which kind of reflects how poorly arrangers sell in the English speaking market compared to synths and WS's) and those still here are getting more and more entrenched and inflexible. But a look back in the archives gets to be quite deja vu, sometimes!

I think SZ is still fun, and still revolves around chewing the fat over new arrangers (the S950, BK-9 and PA900 have provided endless discussion, lately) and getting up in yo grill about which one is 'best'!

The truth is though, with work, just about any of them now will do. For what we tend to make them do (few are pushing the boundaries of new music with them), any of them is very capable.

Kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it?!