I agree Rob and that's why I don't shop around until I run into a snag I can't get around. The lack of tempo locking in PG products is a show stopper for me.

Some of the plugins that come with Mixcraft tally up to more than it's purchase price. I can vouch for VB3 as being an excellent B3 emulation VSTi - and that's what it is not a sample playback synth but a physically modeled emulation of the B3. Lounge Lizard electric piano is also included. Those plugins alone purchased separately tally up to the Mixcraft price.