Everything has a learning curve, some more so than others. Most people don't even know how to use all the features on their existing closed keyboards but yet they are still comfortable with them and what they know about them.

The same attitude can be applied to the Mediastation. You don't need to know everything, just learn how to use what you need to use and let the rest just sit there until your ready to explore it at a later date, or not at all.

Same as you do with any keyboard.

Even after that said, ideally if this sort of technology still sounds daunting then if you can afford to it would make a fantastic second keyboard and give you great comfort in taking the time to explore it and start using it as a Giga File machine alongside your arranger.

There is near next to no learning curve to use it as a Giga File machine at all actually and the benefits are simply mind blowing. In time then maybe then move onto VSTi's and eventually to using it as an Arranger maybe as I think that might be the hardest part for people to get their head around if they find the concept daunting at all.

All in all though there's not a lot to it when you get stuck in, but as I said you don't need to know it all either.

Technology like this is the future though no matter how much you try resist it. Younger people growing up now don't even give technology a second though to try learn. They simply adapt to it like a duck to water.

Regards
James.

[This message has been edited by Irishacts (edited 03-28-2010).]