Any plans for a weighted 88-key TYROS or PA-80 without speakers (or with if they want)? It seems I have to set my self towards an arranger if I want more realistic sounds as opposed to synthy arp sounds. Why is it all the big producers use MOTIF and TRITON for recording and producing? Can't you get the same quality on arrangers? The arrangers focus more on traditional sounds, but then I can't get one with 88 keys. Why is that? And don't mention the KORG SP-500 or the Yamaha PF-1000 with it's arranger like features because it has NO PITCH BEND OR MOD WHEEL! What good is that? Why can't someone make me an 88weighted combination arranger-synth workstation with sampling, vocal harmony, arpeggiators, drum rhythms, auto-accom, and plenty of real-time control instead of those d**n menus to navigate. "Look, wow, we have so few buttons. Our keyboards aren't cluttered up!" But you spend ten years navigating to what you want. Keyboards should be like your stereo system. If the volume is too high you turn it down. If the bass is too low you turn it up. You don't punch up F1, then menu 2, and select volume, then scroll your wheel down to 42.56db with a gated compressor. You simply twist a knob. I don't care, fill up the whole darn console with buttons and sliders and knobs blocked into sections (rhythm, voices, sequencer, mixer, arpegg, sampling, etc.) and then from there you get hands on control knobs and sliders and maybe a few screen menus when necessary to get more detailed. RAM? I don't care, make it 400mb ram. GIVE me sounds! Don't waste my ram on a crappy sax no one will ever use. Either leave it off or spend the extra ram and give me a good one!

I just want to play, compose, sequence, record, publish. I don't have time to modify every sound to the last nanosecond of envelope and LFO and EQ and whatever. Just give me a huge bank of sounds tailored for many different uses and a few knobs to instantly fix a sustain or vibrato or leslie or wah wah-- something that makes sense for each sound.

I just want to be a musician, not a technician. I'm losing the art of writing music because I'm becoming an editor of sound. That's not my job--it's the keyboard manufacturer's job! Don't give me chemicals and numbers to formulate pigments, just give me plain and simple paint! Give me a sonic palette to paint my aural masterpieces and quit giving me all this crap that slows me down!

Anyway, I still am wondering if there is an 88key arranger? Hmmmm....

[This message has been edited by seanbaker (edited 01-09-2003).]