Diki,
thanks, I have been limited in using my horn, been just
letting kb stay on a pedal note and blowing over it for
a couple choruses on funk/latin for one tune a set...
don't want to get into setting up sequences...but I also
want to emphasize my vocals/key backing and downplay
my horn or i'm just always thought of as a horn player,
which is not how i want to work now, except for sittin in..

those are some great suggestions, I wasn't aware of the
on-the-fly chord sequencer..you said up to the g1000..
does that mean including the g1000? some guys on sz
love that model, guess I may have to search for one.
wonder what the tradeoffs would be, though, on features..
although I agree newer ain't always better:: the new Genesys i just dumped couldn't hold a candle to my 8-yr-old Korg is35 in every way except for the keybed, a fuller sound, and CD burner.

since I have been at the keys only since 2000, and mostly
solo, and all using arrangers, I haven't played with any bass players (let alone scary ones) as a keyboardist, only as a saxman. good point you make about it sounding like the bass doesn't know where it's going. but you know, one of the things I love about arrangers is the solid time, and ability to set the timbre and the volume..so unless it is
a real scary bassist, the arranger is superior to most of the
rest except for voice leading, and if the notes aren't a perfect match that is something 99% of the audience
can't distinguish, so I train myself to ignore it--because
the groove is there, and the balance is right, and it doesn't
overplay, or rush, or drag, or both, or try to be too aggressive in volume or play too many notes, or play with that whiny twang that's the latest fashion (yech). when i need to I can play my own bass line right over it if I'm using guitar, organ, rhodes...without using an actual
bass sound and splitting kb...it's unorthodax but it really
adds excitement to have 2 bass lines going..try it..