Yeah the days of cheap are gone in the keyboard world Donny Technology is moving ahead and getting cheaper everywhere else, but the keyboard makers still use old repackaged hardware and increasingly charge more for it....

Sorry to hi-jack your thread MC, but it just angers me that the arranger makers continue to ignore the obvious needed demand for full featured arranger modules. Arrangers ARE popular (and are getting more popular). I've seen online pics of pro studios and have even seen arrangers in their keys section. Studio's know good and well that some of these arrangers have great acoustic voices, but unlike the pro synth department that allows people to at least buy a sound module version of a popular workstation.., in the arranger community you really don't get that option (with the big three).

At one time is was the norm to find a full rack of keyboard mods in a studio. You always saw the Triton Rack and EX5-R right next to eachother too

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 12-08-2008).]