For live play I have all the styles I'll ever need and then some right inside the PA80. I have replaced about 40 % of the internal styles with varied user styles. I'll only use a fraction of the styles inside of the machine for live play and the only reason I ever need any floppy disks is to be able to load midifiles into the PA80. I don't need the hard drive at all. The one thing I will say about floppies is that I always have a duplicate disk available when I go. I find floppies to be less than 100% reliable. When I bring the Motif along for the ride I am able to store the midifiles on a smart media card. I have yet to have one of them fail me, but I still bring a backup SM card as well.

On the other hand, I agree with Terry too. From the composer's standpoint there are never going to be enough styles, particularly for a composer like him who produces the volume of quality songs that he has made.

AJ

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 11-16-2002).]