Waiting with bated breath to actually hear some of this technical superiority...
Sadly, both the most technically advanced arrangers available now have failed to impress me with much music made on it, relying so much as they do on the skill of the PLAYER to actually design the content, rather than someone who is a specialist at that (and letting the PLAYER be exactly what he is best at).
I am still waiting to hear some of this technical superiority get converted to MUSICAL superiority. I'm afraid that's the only thing that impresses me. And I'm pretty sure no-one in the general public reads the manuals...
Sadly, one of the posts on this thread, to me, pinpoints the problem... Dom is using someone from SERBIA to do the styles
. Yamaha, Roland, and Korg use UK and US musicians (amongst others) to make their styles. To be honest, a few Serbian things I've heard on the MS are amongst the better things I've heard. But how big is the Serbian market compared to the UK and USA?
Without a large number of top quality styles in these genres, it's an uphill task to crack England and the US... (or Scandinavia, or Australia, or India, or....).
An arranger's content is just as important to sales as the arps and loops in a WS. Just imagine a MotifXS with NO loops and arps... You HAVE to make them all yourself. Not so good, now, is it?
CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT...