interesting video. te demonstrator did an ok job in terms of getting his head around arrangers and then the diferent set ups for each of the manufacturers. But it was pretty obvious that he had only just learned this stuff about arrangers and never played one for himself before this demo. What i liked about the demo is that he alluded to the fct that the instrument was completely programmable and could be customised much deeper than the stock preset sounds and styles. I am glad that the gospel of arranger keyboards is getting out there. Wish they could have used each manufacturers demonstrator to demo specific parts of their own instrumnets like petter baartram and so on as they would have done a far more convincing job. Despite the often repeated statement that arangers are not cheesy , if the demo makes them sound cheesy then it just reinforces that impression. Unfortunately this demo did nothing to dismiss that myth.

What i found really intersting was the organ flutes demo. The use of drawbars is only going to sound realistic if there are intuitive drawbar controls on the keyboard and in my opinion this can only truly be useful in a live setting if you have real physical sliders or drawbars. In the demo it was clear that using digical toggle switches in a live setting is simply too cumbersome and i am eally surprised that Korg in particular took the sliders away and put digital toggle switched drawbars on the PA800 . Wht was the reasoning behind that ? None of the PA1X users have critiscied the sliders on that instrument . Interestingly the Roland E80 did the exact opposite and put the sliders on !