Although I myself am more of a recorder/demo maker and not a performer, I feel for the performers. And I would like to make one significant distinction between performers (and I include every single arranger KB act), and karaoke machines:

One only has to press "play" on the karaoke machine and it does the rest, playing song after song, the exact same way, time after time. Can the same be said of an arranger KB?

On a KB, even if sequenced, somebody has to work the KB at some time, to customize a performance for a particular show. You need a real MUSICIAN working that KB. The keyboard musician, as opposed to a k-machine, is indeed PERFORMING.

Just my 2¢!


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Regards and Aloha,

Charlie