While for James this setup might be ideal..

For others it won't, because they want the best styles available performing straight out of the Box.
Because they want to use Ableton live as their main sequencer. BEcause they want full controll over the buttons and sliders of their open system.

I could see a setup of Oasys/Audya4/Openlabs Dbeat come close for those people.


Needles to say i personally am still a big fan of the Lionstracs vision. But other people that are more intoo arrangers and playing straight out of the box might be served better with another setup. The setup i described would give them Audya styles combined with the best hardware synth and all the possibilities of Software without having a PC onstage. (I know, that a Dbeat is a really well disguised PC, but it looks more like a module then a PC)