I disagree DNJ. People buy musical equipment, cars , clothes and just about any thing for numerous reasons, not simply because of the products use.

If an arranger keyboard similar to the PA1X had also the much deeper sampling and effects routing of the XS with funky contemporary styles i would buy it especialy if it did not have the polkas, fox trots etc on it. I am a relatively younger arranger musician and see most of those styles as a waste for my purposes. Unlike a lot of potential purchasers of these instruments , i have looked beyond the image of arranges and beyond the umm pah umpah styles and grasped the underlying creative potential of the instrument for my purposes. I have had to put up with a lot of stick from other musicians along the way and still do sometimes.

Image does matter. A high end synthworkstation with arranger capabilities will sell but if you throw in polkas and waltzes it will not. mainly because the high end synth market will not attract the majority of the OMB community who dont even use half the features on their existing arrangers and if they did buy it then the normal purchasers of high end synths will distance themselves from those purchasers by buying something else.

I think yamaha have pitched it about right for now and depending upon sales they may well add intros and ending but i doubt very much if they will add older traditional styles

[This message has been edited by Spalding1 (edited 04-08-2007).]