James, I think it's kind of unfair to blame Diki for Liontracs inability to produce ARRANGER demos at the same quality level of those he is competing with. That's the manufacturer/marketer's responsibility, not the end users (IMO). NOTHING marketed to the general public should be immune from criticism and the best way to silence that criticism is to demonstrate that they (the criticisms) don't hold water. In the world of Arrangers, Liontracs has not done that. To their credit, they have (wisely, IMO) abandoned their efforts to compete in the TOTL arranger market and moved to the WS market, where their offering is probably more competitive. I believe that they will still have to come up with better OOTB content to compete with the Fantom G's and Motif XS's of this world. I believe they will end up being a niche market, much like the MUSE, etc.

In the end, I think Dom has heard the criticisms of the MS's arranger functions and moved on. For that reason, I think it is probably time to also abandon the criticism of the MS as an arranger.

Not trying to be controversial here, this is JMO.

chas

[This message has been edited by cgiles (edited 01-25-2010).]