I own PSR9000 and VA-76 and can't prefer one of them. I use both as two manual instrument for home entertainment live performance. Autoaccompaniment of VA-76 is great and vivid and have morphing of styles (that is GREAT), and Varyfrase but VA have sounds that impossible to listen for me. It’s mean no solo (due to quality of sound) and pads (due to absence of this functionality) on VA. Solo and pads I get from 9000 -- and thus have the best of both worlds.

It is very convenient for me have two autoarrangers -- to my purposes it is no need too much programming before using both due to one touch settings. I have to pick the style on VA and the same style on PSR -- and then I enjoy perfect match of style and soloist+pad parts (even 4 simultaneously due to PSR one touch settings). If it appear PSR but mere synthesizer, it could be difficulties in preprogramming voicing and arpeggios for each style -- too boring for me.

I think that I would change PRS9000 for any instrument with great sounds and pads but with no autoarranger -- and use autoarranger only on VA-76 and have patience to listen bad sounds of accompaniment parts of great quality and variety. As soloist+pad instrument I think I can use karmafied Triton of Korg Karma -- or Motif ES (both for great pad function). But I am afraid of 1) too much programming to match styles of VA with voicing and pads of workstation and 2) adding an external set of amplifier and loudspeakers (now I use PSR for that and use "effect loop" input of PSR to VA main output. I am playing only at home and compactness of setup is important).

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