Too true Al.. Despite the variax, I only recently found that if I pick rather than strum, the output from my Rainsong OM10 is clean enough for a Cakewalk plug in to distinguish each string and give a similar effect, allowing far more samples to be used.

Granted, not much use on stage but fun in the home studio environment and as you say, we know nowt compared to what we could know.

Finding that out with double drop D tuning right now in fact....