I tried to convince Dom to work with a third party VST company to offer an OOTB experience that would have been fantastic. I don't think he wanted to incur the licensing fees to do so. By the time he realized better OOTB sounds and styles were needed, the Mediastation had already been slagged by people who never laid hands on one. That hindered the Mediastations sales and ultimately forced Dom's decision to pull the plug on keyboard manufacturing.
Even with a complete set of sounds and styles it would have made no difference. Lionstracs should have never build an OPEN Arranger. The market for such a product is far too small to make a business of, and as an Arranger most Workstation users would not look at it.
They should have build a workstation from day one with only the necessary buttons a workstation needs.
The Groove X-R rack unit should have been a major success but unfortunately, events took place that made that impossible to proceed. Same really because that did come with a complete sound set and great out of the box experience.
On the topic of Open Arrangers, that vArranger2 software looks very interesting but it needs it's own complete sound set to give it clear independence away from having to use sound modules.
Regards
James
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