How is YOUR MS coming along, Diki?
Yep, that's what I thought...
It is WAY past time that the only naysayers and detractors for the MS should come from owners who can actually DEMONSTRATE that they have the patients and skill it takes to use a board like the MS.

By that I mean if you put a person who is accustom to play a Casio, and put them on a Motif XS they would be lost and may say it is virtually impossible to make music on the XS the way they were accustomed to using a Casio.

Now before you say it, I know the Motif and the Casio are two different beast. But that is exactly the point. The MS and the other TOTL arrangers are different beast.
While the Motif XS is an arranger, it is not your traditional arranger and while you can accomplish the same thing on the XS as you can a Casio, your approach may have to be different.

Same thing with the MS.

Dom has from the very beginning said that this arranger is not a OOTB content arranger. It is for the user to make it their own. The concept is much different from your traditional arranger. Some one who gets the MS is aware that it is a different arranger and not the same concept as a traditional arranger.


And demos? Absolutely, Dom needs to have demos that can wow people. You know the same type of demos that the big 3 have. The ones that no ordinary arranger user can duplicate.


I really did not want to get Dennis's times with the MS involved in this discussion, but lets just say he had different peculiar desires for the MS.

And we have all read reviews of some arrangers where the user absolutely trashed the sounds, styles and OS of one arranger and went to another brand.

In fact I remember one user trashing the G70 and the SD1; could not believe that manufacturers could make such lousy arrangers. That user is now playing a PA 800 and swears it is the best thing since sliced bread.
So a negative review does not say much about the arranger but says more about the user and the user�s needs and priorities.