I remember the early days of getting by on 16 or 32 on-board, un-editable styles, and not all those styles were useful to me.

I find the subtle differences I program in similar styles (8 beats, for example) are important in recording. Live playing is more forgiving, in my experience.

I look at it this way...I suffered too many years with not enough styles, and I have no intention being restricted only to styles the factory programmers think are suitable.

I'm generally editing styles everyday. Sometimes I'm doing completely new ones, and other times, I'm fine tuning existing styles.

The arranger is my "back-up band" so I want all my virtual players in top form and not leaving out any important details.

Ian