how does that make any sense ensnare you ? Yamaha sells the Tyros based on amazing online demos,surprisingly they sound good enough to make buyers mouths water, you posted a link to various VST products using online demo's.(They sounded great by the way just as the T3 demos sound) what do you think the purpose of an online demo is for if both proprietory and VST sounds are used in both????

If the vst suffers in terms of audio quality because of the limitations in MP3 recordings, then so do the Yamaha , korg etc demos. they also sound better in real life as most instruments do.

I am not saying that there would not be better sound quality in real life of any keyboard compared to a recoring. I am saying however that the diference in the fidelity of the sound is not like night and day. A poorly programmed arranger using VST's does not make the keyboard better than well balanced proprietory sounds from yamaha and korg and that can be readily distinguished by MP3 recordings which i believe is precisely why no matter how much it is requested nobody, not the manufacturers and not the enthusiasts of either wersi or mediastion will provide demos of their arranger instruments using the overly touted VST capability. I am not knocking you ensnareyou or abacus and this is not a pissing contest as some would argue. I am simply pointing to the real limitations of claiming that simply because an arranger product can use a VST that it will automatically sound better than a 'closed 'system. Its a great theory but unfortunately no theory is worth a hoot if the reality does not support it.