Yes Eric,
the keyboards can be used to make as professional and real music as
ever, and I thimk future developement will make it better and better
for each new model to come.
The next step is probably going to make it play without touching it,
(as you know, touch-screen is a kind of "old fashion" now), just tell
it what to do or play, and just watch what happen....

The culture differences is maybe more present than I know, but the
strong influence we have from USA might have closed the gap a bit?
I have the greatest respect for U-Dave's and other peoples work and
meanings, and I clearly can see all his point of views too.
I've said it before, it's only my very peronal thoughts, not any kind
of attack against U-Dave.

Regarding to my point about sequensed and playback music, I'll try to
say it in another way to mirror what I try to say:

My mother used to do a lot of hand-knitted sweaters etc. to add income
to the family. (Btw, most of those was sold in USA.)
So one day she tried a knitting machine, had to use the hands to operate
it as well, but even if the products look nice and the quality maybe was
just as good, she refused point-blank to to use it anymore. When the
sweathers got the mark inside, it stood "handknitted" in it.
This was cheating, and could not be called hand-knitted she said, even
if the customers never would have known about it and the sweathers was
just georgious!

My other point is that the karaoke/shows/singers etc. also is a kind
of performance for many people who really do it in a great way.
Maybe some of the reason for the tight market for musicians also can
be relatet to the fact that the AutoArr KB's make it much easier for
amateur "one man bands" to get the jobs, because it's not bad music
coming out of it, and they might ask for less money too?
And when so many pro's also have choosen to go solo and "the band" is
one of these wonderful music-machines, doese'nt it also be a part of
the reason who make more competition about the same market?
Karaoke.....
maybe it's better to try to face it, rather than close the door and say
this have nothing to do with entertaining other people than themselves.

I remember some of the "old folks" used to shake the heads and tell us how
cruel the music we young ones played was, that it was not music but only
"noisy hullabaloo" and that we destroyed the whole music culture!
You'll never know, maybe we did, but is'nt it a bit of the same thing we
can see happen nowadays too?

GJ

[This message has been edited by Gunnar Jonny (edited 09-09-2001).]