I feel the gap is between US and Europeans, at least as far as arrangers go (this is, after all, where most of them are designed and/or voiced). My G70 doesn't have an Enka style anywhere, but abounds in schlagers and beer-hall styles utterly out of step with contemporary US music.

We have a chicken and the egg situation........ Roland (and other arranger manufacturers) don't sell arrangers well here because the styles are too old fashioned or European (Tritons and Motifs fly off the shelves mainly due to the little hiphop and rap loops), and they don't develop styles for the US arrangers because they don't sell well!

Sooner or later, one of the big three is going to change, and wipe the floor with the competition! Arranger sales are a fraction of workstation figures, yet the arranger is, by far, the better tool for hiphop and rap, which relies on short, repetitive loops.

Roland and others repackage their arrangers for the Oriental market, why not the USA?

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 10-14-2005).]