Thanks for all of the information RHarv. This will actually require some significant exploration on my part (and right now I have some rather limited accompaniment objectives in mind) but it's great to know that for most of the things I will use right now that BiB and RB have access to essentially the same facilities -- just the UI's are different.

I'm curious (since you seem to have spent time with the PG Music organization) about how big they are. Roland is publicly traded (on the Osaka exchange) so companies like Hoovers have gotten their organization stats -- they were around 300 employees in 2000 expanded substantially in the next decade, and now are shrinking. But I understood from one of their sales reps that most of their employees are contract, and that they typically outsource engineering. Given the quality of their products (I'm a fan) I do think they must have mastered their outsourcing.

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