I'm with Bill G. on this one.
Adding sounds to an arranger can take place in various forms, so there's certainly nothing wrong with discussing it here. I find it very interesting.
It would be especially beneficial if we could actually hear how these VST's sound/work in the owner's instruments mentioned above...Wersi Abacus for example.
However, since some users are, by their own admission, stronger "tweakers" rather than "players", it's perfectly understandable that demos may not be forthcoming.
Thanks for the link to Native Instruments and the free Kontakt Player, Billy Abacus.
Ian
If you want to know how vsts sound, listen to any demo of that vst on youtube.
If you want to hear a vst incorporated in a style, goos luck, even on arrangers like wersi OAS, v-arranger, lionstracs... Styles use the default sounds because they are ballanced for these styles.
Altough wersis sound source has allways been a vst ( hypersonic 2 nowerdays) . And in that case you will find out that for samplers and sample players its allways the quallity of the samples that counts as these days there are no bad samplers anymore...
As for hypersonic 2 it supports layered sounds and legato play in the same way as yamaha Sa and sa2 voices.
VSTs are mostly used for mainhand piano and solo voices. I currently have an audya rack / korg kronos/ V- synth/ PC VST setup. And i never felt the need of adding any vst/kronos/vsynth sound to the audya arrangements. Because the audya is not the ideal system to throw style tracks over midi out....
And as said before, most wersi players are real organ players and prefer lfthand rghthand peddalboard with just a drumtrack in the background.