Do you create your styles using SFF 2?
If you refer to SFF2 protocol (styles type) , no everything I create up today is for older keyboards and probably SFF1. But I already load the SFF1 styles to later generation arrangers (Genos, Tyros-5) which as far as I know using SSF2 protocol and everything sounds just fine, no malfunctions of any type! (apart of course volume levers... since every arranges and sound generator has different "initial" volume levels)
In this way you have lost half of the instruments abilities
Can you please elaborate a little bit on "instruments abilities" ?
What do you mean exactly? What type of "instruments abilities" you referring?
Can you give us some examples of this "instruments abilities" ?
"Stylist" has the ability to play the style through the CUBASE program
Yes I know that, and I understand that this maybe is important for some style programmers, but to be honest it is not important for me.
I think there is a "style player" application (free as far as I remember, I also download this from Jorgen's website). This way, although you can't play directly from your sequencer application, you can have a clear image on how the style you create will sound using various chords, before load the style to the arranger.
To be honest, I don't use this "style player". I prefer to export the style and load it to my arrangers and test it directly there. This is my workflow, I understand that my workflow doesn't fit the workflow of other creators but I'm very satisfy and productive this way, I don't need a "real-time" version from the sequencer application via "Stylist" or any other application
The main spirit of my answer is that YES we can do extremely advanced creation and editing TODAY with FREE applications!
Yes it will be fine to have more applications available and every creator select what fits his way of creation, BUT we can still today create complex and advanced styles with the excising applications.
So my bottom line is that instead of moaning about what we don't have, we can use what we have and explode EVERY available possibility!
I consider myself "advanced style creator" and still have the impression that I just scratch the surface of the abilities provided by the existing applications.
I know that I can do a lot more, but I just don't have the time or the need to go deeper...
In any case I really curious to know what do you mean with the expression "instruments abilities".
I will appreciate some examples.