I don't know if this "identity crisis" has hit this forum before, or if it is just a byproduct from slow news in the industry, but for all it is worth, I wouldn't like this forum to become an "arranger only church".

I believe the purpose of a forum is the exchange of views, ideas, some fun, on a specified topic.

If you then broaden the view just a little bit and include arranger "systems" as well as keyboards (can't find a better word now), then softsynths or OMB like programs will fit the bill nicely.

The Bar is a wonderful addition for people who would also like to share their opinion on sports, weather, or the most wonderful invention ever made, women

Limiting the discussion only in hardware arrangers will make the forum more sterile, less fun, like some other forums I have seen around. The more "niche" the category, fewer people will talk about it, few will have interest, and fewer will post.

And then of course, when the Roland GW-5 or the new Tyros or whatever next hits the news, there will be a surge of posts and topics like these will be forgotten, right?

Or we may just wait for Scott Yee to recover from the flu and Uncle Dave to finish doing better things than posting here. Sometimes, half of the posts were theirs.

It too, shall pass.