Doesn't it at all scare some of the PSR owners here that IF Yamaha bases the next PSR-S900 replacemnt on the CURRENT increased cost..., that the new model may be selling for close to two grand!!!!!!!

MC you'd be surprised that when you strip it down the many similarities there are between the two types of keyboards and even Yamaha is moving forward into helping that line fade. Too many arranger owners seem to forget that you're already using something that's on workstations. All those great guitar licks and riffs you're hearing on your arrangers are ARPS with chord recognition. Yamaha has blessed Motif XS owners with arps that "in some ways" give the player the feel of an arranger style play (finally someone did it). What you guys calls styles on arrangers are called patterns and arps on workstations. Just as much work goes into creating those too. Even Phil Clendenin at Yamaha will tell you how much work goes into making those great acoustic style arps on the Yamaha's that you find on BOTH arrangers and workstations. You guys have them in your PSR S series.., but use them a little differently. If you record say a guitar lick to a multipad on your PSR.., set it to loop and use it in your style.., you've just created a basic arp.