Yep, looks good. I guess this is new - I hadn't seen it before. I'd like to hear a demo and find out the price.

I'm moving towards my own "flr2006" system, using my Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop and most likely a CME UF8 controller w/Firewire interface. The laptop and the controller will match and look impressive on stage: both are black with red end caps.




When I play an acoustic piano then the laptop will go solo, which is what I do now but with MP3 files rather than MIDI files. I've used GM softsynth packages on laptops in the past but they never sounded as good as the hardware counterparts... that might change with a 2GB sound library to work with.

GM has stood the test of time... it seems that it'll be the sole "quasi-universal" format for sometime to come so formatting your midi files to be compatible with it makes sense.

BTW: I've been working with Colossus, which is a "big brother" to Bandstand with a 32GB sound library. It too is GM-compatible, and features some of the most impressive sounds I've ever heard. But it's a little too "bulky" for live use - the samples take a little too long to load (fine for studio though).