The large touch screen, easy navigation of the i30, plus copying measures and copying whole choruses at a time on the i30 and pasting them over and over is a cinch.

Using the the styles I can do a tune in 30 to 45 minutes. That's plenty fast for me and is as easy as falling off a log. And don't forget, I'm a thick headed Cajun. Ha! Ha!

It takes that long to boot up my computer and load Cakewalk. The i30 has to be the easiest arranger keyboard in the world to sequence on and then to name it also.

Drpete after a year on this forum, I figure the guys here do not sequence on their keyboards. 1. The sequencing features on many keyboards leave much to be desired.
2. Besides, if you can play like Dave, Don, Donny, Scott and others why would you need to sequence.

You have to play Guitar, Trombone, Sax etc to appreciate the styles on some of the arrangers to use the sequencer.

Does any computer software have styles that even compare to arrangers? I use maybe 10 tunes I did for playing sax from BIAB and 3 or 4 from Jammer pro, just for a different sound to keep my interest up. But they aren't as sophistacated as the i30 styles. They aren't even close. I just use them for something different.

Thus again buying a keyboard is going to be different for everyone. If your a horn player and want to use styles sequenced from an arranger. Buy a dinosaur i30 off ebay. They go for between $1200 to $1600. But I'll admit, they do win the weight battle too. They are heavey weights not light weights.

I'd just hate for a horn player to buy a keyboard from someone recommendation only to have the poor horn player find out that that particular brand doesn't copy and past measures. Again if the sequencer won't copy and paste, why even put a sequencer on a keyboard. Why build a car without a steering wheel. If some of the technicians layed brick they'd probably try to start at the top. Ha! Ha!