I've got to be honest guys.., I can't help but often laugh at how fast people on this forum turn over their keyboards, and I agree with Diki that they're turning them over after just barely scratching the surface.

Here's my take on the the subject (this is based on the nearly 9 years I've been a member of this forum and the posts I've read over that time). In my opinion (from what I've seen), many here don't give a crap about voice editing, and creating their own styles. It would seem that the general position here on sounds is (out of box sound quality) that requires little to no user tweeking. I've also noticed through private emails that many here don't actually edit their voices because they honestly have no idea what all those parameters are and how to use them. In terms of styles..., what I've seen is the need for MORE styles...., styles that require little editing or tweeking on the users part.

So many players here IMO honestly have no idea of the power that truely lies beneath the hood of their arranger keyboards, but users don't keep them long enough to even realize it, and the ones that do keep them don't explore many of those useful features. I've read so many complaints about sounds (issues with this, issues with that), and in reality many of those issues can be addressed by the user simply tweeking the voice parameters. I've read complaints about piano patches not being to specific taste when truely all that was needed was a simple adjustment to the filter section.

From what I see is that many here have their nitch and are quite happy with it.. They play what they play, and once their line-up begins to sound old.., rather than dig deeper into the board to unleash the beast within, they just drop it and buy another one to play the same old thing (only with a different sound set) then when that gets old.., well you get my drift.

Myself I keep boards as long as I possibly can until I realize that no matter what I do.., I can't squeeze anymore juice out of the puppy. When I had arrangers, I wrote my own styles because the onboard ones just got old fast. When I had a Casio WK model, I had so many tweeked voices on that unit it wasn't even funny. When I sold the unit I included well over 100 (probably closer to 200) custom tweek sounds to the buyer.

I just think some of you guys give up way too soon. To those of you who have Korg PA's (MY GOODNESS) do you realize the synth engine you've got under your fingers? Even those of you who still have Casio MZ-2000's have an impressive synth section (odd that the Casio MZ-2000 still beats the PSR-S900 and Tyros II in terms of INTERNAL voice editing)

I just think some of you give up way too quick, and that if you took the time to learn how to edit and tweek voices and create your own styles you'd be hanging on to your arrangers much longer than you do. That's just my two cents I guess. Hope I didn't offend anyone.