Donny...
It's been a journey all right.
When all the clubs were downsizing their entertainment and budgets were getting tight (somewhere in the 80s)I was in a 4 & 5 pc group. In order to survive, I got my first arranger...a Technics KN700... not 7000, 700. It was a bear to learn and very primitive by today's standards. No diskettes, no saving registrations. As I remember it was somewhere around 11 button pushes to set up style, tempo, voices, etc.

I muddled through until the PSR 5700 came out and that was a real break through, although I had to add a second keyboard because I felt a the piano voices were weak and some of the other voices too synthasized.

Then a major leap forward with the PSR9000...but it was too big and cumbersome for one nighters. The 740 was next on my list...but all the codes to set up songs was too time consuming on the gig.

So, when the PSR2000 came out...it was like a gift from heaven and has been my mainstay for the last two years.

Adding to the confusion of picking the right KB were all the salesmen whose product knowledge was very lacking. But now, with my present gear and sharing of info from SZ, things have really come together.

Eddie