Josè, I agree with your idea of sharing our arranger playing techniques; I know that you, like me, own a Tyros and this is important, since our playing techniques depend also on the particular keyboard we own. One problem, with all the arrangers, is the so called boredom effect or, like Scott often says, their "canned sound"; three things that I always do to avoid as much as possible this effect are:
1) Use the multipads whenever is possibile; adding a different multipad can change dramatically a style; since the Tyros has so many excellent multipads, the combinations are almost endeless. I agree that with other keyboards this can be a problem.
2) Many Tyros styles (especially the latin ones, and I am sure that you know them well) have rhytm tracks that are too loud or inappropriate, so I usually lower these tracks (especially the acoustic guitars, even the Megavoices) or mute them altogether (especially the electric pianos) and at the same time...
3) Rise the level of the left hand part and try to play a lot of chord embellishments to add a live feeling.
I hope to post very soon a few examples of these techniques, especially now that Dirk posted his excellent demoes of the Pa1-Xpro; I hope that this will also enable our fellow Forum members to compare the sound of these two keyboards (Tyros and Pa-1Xpro).
Regards,
Andrea


[This message has been edited by Dreamer (edited 02-26-2004).]