Yep.. there's an issue... I forgot about the midifile deal 'til now, because I haven't really bothered to play a GM midifile with the Es.

Again, my original post wasn't to say that you guys are wrong.. but rather to say that to this point I'm navigating the ES with little problem, just using it as a studio tool, and for real time playing on it. I'm pretty happy with the whole package, but I'm sure that there are things in the OS that I will find to be annoying, especially if I bring it out to play live with.

I created a topic related to this a few months back.. something to the effect of "using all of these tools together" and trying to make it work with little effort. I know midi pretty well, yet I still find myself in lala land with some of it at times.

It's not just the Motif. I find my PA80 to be a very user friendly live play tool and I'm likely in the minority on that but hey.. I like the OS. I don't, however, find it to be all that user friendly in the studio at times. What doesn't help matters at all is that there is no external editing software for patches like the Motif has and XG editing for the Yamaha arrangers. Although the PA80 pattern sequencer has useful functions, the menu screens and the layout gets very annoying, and it doesn't recognize midi sync. When it comes down to it, I don't find the midi " standard " to be very standard at all

I actually found the PSR2000 to be the most user friendly board in the studio for me. Unfortunately, the tradeoffs of poor key feel, being locked into set patternss with multipads locked in the same octave split, lack of deep sound editing capabilities and drums that I didn't like, were too much for me to overcome.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 11-06-2003).]