Hey Springwood..... I hope I'm not discouraging you any, you said earlier that y'all have two guitars and a piano, right. Well then, with the two guitars you probably wouldn't need the guitar parts of the arranger keyboard styles or the piano parts for that matter..... that pretty much leaves bass and drums. Programming in a bass line to a sequencer shouldn't be that hard..... especially if you can get one of your guitarists to help you some (most guitar players know a little bit about bass) The drum part might be a little harder, but like I said.... you could always get a drum machine for the drum parts. I am looking to get an Alesis SR-16 drum machine very soon.... It has 50 preprogrammed drum accompaniments with two variations on each basic rhythm and the ability to trigger drum fill-ins by footpedal. Push the pedal and it plays a fill-in and changes from variant A to B or vice-versa. You can also program in your own drum patterns like on a sequencer. I'm pretty sure most arranger keyboards have sequencers also.... and you can program in your own "styles" too. Sorry, I don't know much about the Technics keyboard you mentioned..... Post in the arranger forum and you're sure to get info on it though.

Now... if you feel you could program in the bass part and other instrument parts you wanted into a sequencer, you could always get a good-sounding synth with just a sequencer and no "styles" and then get a drum machine for the drum parts. A couple good synths would be, of course, the Triton; also the Roland XP 60 and XP 80 ($1100 and $1400 I think) Then get something like the Alesis SR-16 I mentioned earlier (this runs $200 new and about $100-150 used) If you go with one of the Roland's (or the Triton for that matter) you get access to a wide range of expansion boards that cover almost every musical genre there is. The Roland expansion board library currently has around 20 different boards ranging from just pianos and keyboards to ethnic instruments.... can't say I know to much about the Triton's expansion boards.... I know there's not quite as many of them, but they have the MOSS expansion board which is supposed to be one of the best boards out there and about 10 other boards.

A little extra something to consider..... The Roland XP's have RPS (Realtime Phrase Sequencing) which lets you program in a midi file pattern on the sequencer for many different parts of a song (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, etc.) and then "map" these to different keys on the keyboard (like use the lowest 5 black keys or something) and then while playing the keyboard you can trigger the synth to play the sequenced accompaniment for whatever part you need. It's not quite as versatile as an arranger keyboard, but it would work. I don't know if Triton has something like this.... but I'm sure Arvon could answer that.

One last thing, what did you mean by "feels like I want to add more of my stuff"??????? Were you talking about sounds or programmed parts to songs or what???

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