The strength of today's arranger keyboards, allow it to wear many hats..I am just as comfortable playing left hand bass, right hand piano and "color" sounds like organ, sax etc..

Today's' arrangers can also cover song writing too, and is just as able as any workstation[at least top of the line arrangers]..

I am not so foolish as to turn[shun] away from using SMF's , and/or MP3's...there are some venues you will never cover any other way...believe me...

The versatility of an arranger is so complete, I could never understand hard nose players avoided them like the plaque...but it is there loss and our gain..