Hello all, thank you for your replies.

OK, I may have been a bit harsh in my initial post, so I have edited a couple of things out, I was really tired at the time of writing and probably should have waited to post it.

I think what I trying to elude to was a concern I have where some manufactures feel they may really improve on the sounds by way of audio because maybe they feel they've reached the limit with midi? This is where I think editing becomes less flexible and you're stuck with a certain sound. Where I said cheating/fake (which I have since edited out because I think I was a little harsh), my reasoning here was that using anything audio seems to take away the skill of being a bit more creative. I always like to give an example of when playing along with an MP3 or a Midi File, I hate using MP3's because for the same reason I don't believe there's much creativity using an MP3 whereas at least with a Midi file you can edit it until your hearts content, putting your own stamp on it to make a certain song sound almost completely different. The counter argument here then is that it doesn't sound like the original anymore and MP3's/Audio are the real thing, but that's exactly why I don't like using them. Not many have agreed or even understood my reasoning on this so that's why I don't tend bring it up anymore in any face to face discussion I have with friends/family about it.

I really like Ketron and I still own my SD60 (it's never going anywhere) and I really enjoy how the drums sound, but sometimes not so much the guitars, especially the audio guitars because sometimes they don't sound correct to my ears and can a little sound off especially if you want change key. When I edit a style to change the guitar to another live guitar it can make it worse so sometimes I either take them off completely or replace with a midi guitar sound if it's able to play it. Maybe I am doing something wrong but I seem to get better results when not using audio sounds. I am not talking about the drums though because I have no problem in audio drums and they do sound amazing on the SD60.

I had a similar issue on my old GEM WK8 as well when using RASS I was getting very mixed results whenever audio parts were used, I know it's a much older keyboard but I could sense that using audio could have it's drawbacks even from back then.

I didn't want to sound negative and it's great we are still getting new arrangers but I'm just not sure about the audio route.