This topic has been up lately about arrangers with weighted keys.... I posted one and there were some pretty good points made by others as well. I agree that it was pointless to not at least add a pitchbend wheel to that Korg (or at least a joystick, which is what Korg mainly uses). However, the Yamaha PF-1000 does allow pitchbending.. Keep in mind that digital is set up like a piano with 3 pedals.. One of the functions of a pedel is pitchbending. I can say if you're use to doing this on a wheel or stick, the pedal takes some adjusting to. One of the main things we talked about with the weighted keys is when you have other instruments involved that are much harder to play on with those keys like saxes, drums, bases, and guitars. Many of us here don't just play the keyboard.. I also play drums and guitar, so I know how difficult it is to do this on weighted keys. Having to edit the keyboards sounds is completely subjective really.. Regardless of what keyboard you choose there will be sounds you think are perfect and sounds you may feel need a little changing. It's all in personal tastes. It would be nice to have that one arranger or synth that has sounds taht are perfect and need no work, and huge amounts of memory, ect.. However, you don't really see this because there would be no way to keep the price reasonable to the consumer.. If you had a keyboard say that had 88 weighted keys, 400mbs of sounds, 80 gig hard drive, CD burner, Sequencer with unlimited tracks and memory (based on available memory), flawless DSP that could run a huge number of insert effects at the same time, touch screen, vocalizer, and all the bells and whistles you're going to be investing THOUSANDS of dollars for this thing.. Look at the price of the upper line arrangers like the Tyros, 9000 Pro, GEM Gen., Korg PA-80, Ketron SD-1, Technics KN-7000... These all cost several thousand dollars, and imagine what that price tag would be for the arranger that has EVERYTHING that allows you to do the work of a complete studio from the keyboard... It will be very expensive.

Squeak