Sadly, I feel that this is ONLY geared to the younger player. If it was geared to the traditional player, it would come, like the Audya does (in part) with the guitar strum work done for you, and a huge selection of styles that employ it. No 'traditional' arranger user is going to sit down and spend weeks making the guitar audio (and bass audio, and keys audio, etc.) for ONE style, just so he can cover any chord he feels like.

What seems to be missing is an arranger that CAN appeal to both segments of the market.

The MS has to compete with WS's like the MoXS, M3 and FantomG, NOT arrangers, when it comes to getting the younger player on board. And sadly, all of these have FAR better onboard content that the MS comes with, and are quite capable of doing loop slicing and playback, too.

I believe there are VERY few players of ANY age that audition a keyboard in a store, and select the worse sounding one because it MIGHT have better capabilities (but can't show it)... We might like to THINK that they are all about creativity, but I've seen them in the stores, and what floats their boat are great sounding arps and loops OOTB. Call it a 'proof of concept' if you will.

It doesn't seem to matter... arranger OR WS, what gets it SOLD is the on board content OOTB.