Hi COMALite J and Scott

In case Scott's answer was not clear, arranger keyboards differ in how they respond to different fingers of the same basic chord. For example, if I play c-e-g, most keyboads will recognize a C chord and play the style with the c as the base note. If I play e-g-c, this will also be recognized as a C chord. However, in some cases, the sound will be the same as if I had played c-e-g, while in other cases, the inversion will sound with e as the bass note. This, by the way, is the difference between the "fingered 1" and the "fingered 2" modes on my PSR8000. In the latter case, in a sense, the keyboard treats C and C/E as two different chords. The issue is whether different forms or inversions of a chord sound differently when interpreted by the arranger.

What Scott wants is an arranger that recognizes the chord corresponding to his fingerings, but that also plays the chord using the lowest note he plays as its lowest note. He does not want the arranger to add the missing base note. Thus, if he plays f-c-e for Dm7(9), he does not want a "d" added as the bass note. I hope this is both clear and reasonably correct.