One rule of thumb I have with companies like Korg and Yamaha in the software realm. I don't trust them.. at all. Too many times I've seen them start up a new software only to abandon it later.

XP will not last forever. I'm sure Mr Gates is already working on the next OS. Here are examples of the problem. I have the Yamaha SYxg 100 ( a collaboration with Sondius ). They never updated it past Windows 2000. It's useless on my XP based systems. They orphaned XG Works as well, although a while after xp became the standard they were kind enough to give us a patch so that we could use it with XP. No support for current arrangers though. The most "modern" arranger supported is the PSR740 or 9000.

Korg ? The Oasys card was very expensive in it's day, but it was a brilliant piece of work too, perhaps well ahead of it's time sonically vs what was out there. Unforunately, it too was abandoned quickly.

The smaller to medium sized developers and houses generally don't do that ( with Steinberg possibly being the notable exception with some of their soft synths .. but hey Yamaha now owns vst anyway ). Of course some of the less succesfull programs from very small developers ( Cute Loops for example ) do get abandoned pretty quickly as well.

Absynth and Pro 53 are good examples ( medium sized developer Native Instruments ). So is FL studio. RGC audio Pentagon and Z3ta are good examples from smaller devs.

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 03-12-2005).]