Its funny how as a guitar player, buying my first keyboard arranger contradicts my regular buying pattern.

In buying guitars I am more interested in vintage instruments. More so for acoustic but even for electrics (love those old Ibanez musician guitars and vintage Paul Reed Smith).

But alas, what am I even thinking about waiting till Roland comes out with their latest greatest....

I must say though, I do get the feeling from most of the posts that there is no keyboard that satisfies anyone 100 percent. And there is a definate pull towards the latest greatest as each new one comes out.

For me its just sound generation and the rest can maybe be sub-par. But I dont find any arranger that has the heavy and professional sound of the synthesizers from Roland, Yamaha or Korg.

But making a living off the instrument is an entirely different story.

It sounds like the Genysis is close but the Pentium chip is old and outdated and so is the software.


ahhh I give up, if the PRS2000 sounded a little better I would buy it and be done with it (same for the PA-80).

Maybe someday Yamaha will use flagship technology and make an arranger that sounds like the Motif (fat and heavy and varied).

The new Roland? they havent changed their sound generation for about 10 years or more.

Good luck out there. Maybe I sould get a powerful laptop, load up some software synths, BIAB or Jammer and have some fun.

Cheers
Guitarman