The thing is James, the MS was never REALLY promoted as an arranger.

It was always a VST and media workstation running Linux, that JUST happened to have a style engine included. Running the Qranger software provided by a 3rd party Linux developer.

That fact that others here have decided it is an Arranger, and therefore it should operate 100% like all the closed arrangers, is something of their own creation. Probably because it ties in nicely with their own very narrow, and blinkered opinions.

Those bleating for demos of this function (even though it is NOT the apex of the keyboards role) are the very same people quick to preclude themselves from providing ANY demos to support THEIR arguments.

The recent spats over the guitars on the Audya threads being a good example.

Some just believe they are too high and mighty I think, but I always say the one who complains loudest is the one who can actually do it the least. And as for other examples of people playing here, well ANYONE can doctor up an audio file. In quite a few of the demos I have heard there are plenty of times this has happened.

Some folks must have three arms, but more likely they did not edit it properly to remove telltale signs of re-editing and multi-tracking. Anyone can record multiple tracks, severely edit and THEN present the work as a "one take, one pass" recording!!! LOL, what total tosh. The minute someone says it is a one-take, I don't even bother listening as it will most likely be a doctored recording to make them seem better than they really are..But I digress

That style engine was then augmented by the LiveStyler and then the LiveArranger, but again the MS was NOT an arranger, nor was it promoted as such.

Lionstracs added and updated the arranger modules more as an add-on for those people who wanted an arranger function, (but who will never buy one, much like those whinging about the Audya but have NO intention of buying one) but who had no idea about how to actually set it up and run it.

So of course those same people THEN complain it is a lousy arranger.....Most of the time so they can feel smug and superior thinking THEY have the best keyboard.

Be like buying a house next to a factory, then complaining about the noise.

No, James, give up, these people here are the proverbial brick wall. And even if you have a win, they will only try and nitpick something else, to try and justify their own small and, really, insignificant opinions.

Dennis