There's a big difference between HAVING to tweak and adjust EVERY style you use, and being unable to tweak and adjust every style. And BOTH these things are completely unacceptable, at least to ma. A style should work and sound close to perfect when you start it for the first time... but THEN you should be able to alter it to something that sounds very DIFFERENT (go from sticks to brushes, slap bass to acoustic, etc.) to add variety to your style choices.

My G70 makes this almost a 'one button' process, and the mapping is already DONE.

In fairness, for what I want to do with an arranger (don't forget, for home and studio, I already HAVE a VSTi rig that suffices for my needs in a non-live situation) the Audya starts out as a FAR better prospect. At least I'm not faced with WEEKS (to months, to years! ) of prep work before I can gig with it.

Once again, all the refutations of my points are theoretical. No-one is going 'listen to THIS!'. They are simply telling me how easy it OUGHT to be... Proof positive they have never actually done it themselves. When you hear 'in a few WEEKS I can show you this' but then they tell you it takes a half an hour to do (mind you, you repeat half an hour for every style you use - how much time is THAT for all of you? For me, that would be a LONG time!)...

All it's going to take (all it has EVER taken) is for someone to simply DO IT, let me listen to the results (play the original, then the GIGA edit) and tell me truthfully how long it took them to do that ONE. I can figure out the rest myself. Start with a SERIOUSLY good ROM style, Korg, Roland, Yamaha, whatever, then let's just HEAR all this.

Enough talk...