I really enjoy Diki's knowledgeability and his frankness.

Nevertheless, I think we should remember that the focus of this forum, keyboards - that they're just machines. They are just things. The people who are members should be treated more deferentially than the keyboards they talk about because they have feelings, emotions, soul, etc.

I don't know what history Diki has with Fran. I don't read enough posts here. But I do know that if there wasn't any history, that Diki's reply, while factually accurate, was heavy handed. There's a custom in the realm of courtesy called letting someone you disagree with save face. You don't even have to be all nicey nicey, but instead of saying, "You don't know your ass from a hole in the wall," you can say, "In all due respect, you don't know your ass from a hole in the wall." You can say, "Perhaps you haven't read the whole manual, but you are way off." You can say, "It's hard to lend credence to you as an expert on arrangers when you haven't posted your songs - why don't you?"

But as I said, I don't know what history Diki has with Fran, and Fran might have been rude to Diki in the past.

However, please correct me if my recollection is incorrect (and I will edit this post), Scott Yee, once posted a song that he did on his website, that Fran was among the people who gave scathing reviews, making fun of his voice in a meanspirited fashion. What I mean is that the purpose of the review wasn't to help Scott on the path of improving his song but rather to hurt his feelings.

In this light, it is surprising that Fran would be so sensitive.

I, being a Yamaha player, am on a different planet from Fran who is always slamming Yamaha, albeit sometimes in gest. But I appreciate his participation here on the forum. I will be sorry to see him go.

I think this is a pretty good forum, and we should let the shit slide off.

I remember when DNJ told me that he was shocked that I did 500 shows a year given how out of tune my voice was, I let it slide off - and I bought pitch correction software and several months later I started doing vocal training.

Beakybird