At the time it was all I had. If I had to to it again I probably could use an Arranger. But it has to be at the beginning of the process. I don;t think I could do that tune squeezing into a pre arranged style. In fact thats one of the reasons Im going back to a WS. I want to redo some older songs and I cannot find unique arrangements no one else is using. However I can replace a part or two with a nice guitar or bass ARP. I use a VSTI Drums most of the time and aSW sampler for individual String parts. I am finding the T3 does and hopefully the Motif will take some of the load off the DAW.

I like the idea of just turning on the WS and doing the entire production there. THEN turning on the DAw for further editing and routing of voices. Im still going to use the Styles. But I won't HAVE to compromise if I have a WS involved in the process. Thats really how I have been working for the past 20 years. Arrangers are new to me. I love the T3 and the voices are amazing but like DIKI mentioned once they are really much better for producing songs that have ALREADY been written and are based on such. Completely Original work is tough to do on them as thats not what they were really designed for. They are playback machines more than creation machines. I think the Korg and Roland Arrangers are probably better at allowing for easy original integration.

Plus as a bonus there are 88 keys and a control surface that integrates well with a DAW. I'm pretty excited about it and since the price increase taking effect March 1 I needed to jump now if I was going to jump at all. Its a significant increase on the Motif series.