Diki

I though you would be on the ball when I said SMF in various guises, I was refering music sequencing in general which predates MIDI using the old CV/GATE system which goes back a lot further...Actual Arrangers as we know them today have only been around for about + / - 20 years my first dedicated arranger was a Roland Pro E which I purchased in 1989 I have played organ since 1972 and the Pro E was the first arranger I had ever encountered!
Auto Accompaniment on lower manuals of 70's organs cannot really be really be classed as an arranger until the Lowery MX1 came along in the 80's

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Originally posted by Diki:
I'm sorry, but SMF's have only been around since the advent of MIDI (mid eighties) and only practical for many since the Sound Canvas in the early nineties... (or MT-32 just prior)

In the meantime, home organs had auto accompaniment since the seventies. Arrangers in one form or another have been around a LONG time...