The thing is, spalding... unless the arrangers have styles and sounds that a young player WOULD use, it's no good getting some young turk to demo it anyway!

It's not the age of the demonstrator, it's the age of the STYLES...

Thing is, pretty much most modern arrangers can completely replace their ROM styles (or ought to be ). So a dealer should be able to load a style package into the store's arranger that would suit whatever is the main demographic his store has. Of course, if some old fart like us walks in, it should be the work of a moment or two to load up a completely different 'oldies' package...

It's trying to get youngsters past seeing polkas and foxtrots in a keyboard they want to buy. If they are not in there (except as a HD load, well hidden) and all there are are contemporary styles and loops, he's going to think that the product IS designed for him... If he sees waltzes and schlager, he's going to KNOW the product is designed for his grandfather.

If arranger manufacturers want to grow the brand, they are going to need younger players, and they are going to need to attract them by making the product appeal to THEM. Which means hiding the legacy stuff, and rethinking what the purpose of ROM styles is, now that all the memory is volatile. They have an opportunity to rewrite the rules a bit, and restore some relevancy to the product, if they are willing to look past how things always USED to get done.