Ted, the main difference was that with the Roland system, you never have to input the chords in advance, it just reads what you input until you hit "play", and then it loops it, no interruption. Spontaneity being the whole point, I guess. Most use an arranger for the flexibility and freedom from preset arrangements.

This feature allows you that AND frees up your left hand when you want to. If you need more info, just search for "chord sequencer' and you'll find most of my posts!!

Wis, I am afraid that the Roland guy said Roland thought that 'not enough people used it' to make it worth while. I am just hoping that perhaps a few of you can see the point of this feature (it is, after all, a truly 'arranger' feature, NOT some ported over workstation feature) and make your desires known. Hell, I don't even care if was reintroduced by some other manufacturer, just as long as SOMEONE brings it back (a T2 with a CS? Wow!).

Look, I realize that this is something that players with weak left hands can't utilize, but if you consider that your left hand IS capable of doing more than just inputting chords, you might want to see if you can give this feature a try. Find someone with a G1000 or G800 (or several other Roland arrangers of that period) and test drive it.

Roland never really promoted the feature well, despite it's usefulness. All I'm trying to do is raise awareness better than they did!

I'm afraid the idea of lugging a G1000 around to trigger a G70 doesn't deserve to come from the lips of folk that won't even abide the weight of ONE Roland 76-er, yet alone two!

Here's just a short list of some things you can do with a CS you can't do any other way (in arranger mode);

Play two-fisted piano over chords that don't change or glitch as you get REALLY 'outside'

Use the bender whenever YOU feel like it, not just when your left hand is free

Twiddle the knobs on your synth AS you play it (for you, Nick!)

Play on another keyboard altogether (with two hands)

Play another instrument completely

Play your own bass line over chords that don't change

Have a drink WHILE you solo! (my personal fave!)

Left hand counter melodies

Move drawbars WHILE you play

And so on and so forth. Ad nauseam....

Now if NONE of these things would EVER be useful, you probably will never need a CS (but I would recommend working on that LH independence until you DO!), but I've got a sneaky feeling that there ARE some players here at SZ that might find one or two of those possibilities intriguing.

YOU are the ones that should be making the noise, too...!

Join in on the chorus.... "I want my, I want my, I want my left hand back!"