Hi Bachus,
I thoroughly enjoyed the couple of years or so, I spent on my softsynth/software arranger setup,but, in the end it was the lack of being able to share that made me start to lose interest.
I feel that there needs to be a common soundsource for "style parts" that anybody can use. Not much point in creating or editing styles , that one is willing to share, if they then need to be re-edited by whoever wants to use them. You can't play an xg drum mapped style on a gm drumkit without editing, requires more than a tweak.
The software arranger wasn't the problem, either OMB or Livestyler work ok & the same styles work in either, it's the soundsource for the Style Tracks that causes hassles.
Quite a few of us gave it a go, but one by one we dropped out. I used Soundfonts, they were inexpensive or even free. What I liked about them, was, they could be edited.
Didn't like the piano in a particular soundfont back, I could replace it with another from a different soundfont.
To quote Ian, a Frankensound in this case , not a Frankenstyle.
Interesting to chat about it again.

best wishes
Rikki

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Software arrangers tough have the same problems as Lionstracs, all setups are so diverse that there is no real usergroups sharing their stuff..(Ask Rikki BEars).. You spend a lot of time creating styles and then there is noboddy to share stuff with, which also leaves out the option to use the great stuff others have created. Sharing these things for me is very important. I liek to create my ownstuff but since i dont have infinite time for this hobby i also really need a lot of stuff that works straight out of the box.