Originally posted by squeak_D:
Ian.., don't look it it as a arranger vs workstation. Look at FEATURES compared to cost. TAKE IT ALL INTO CONSIDERATION. Some budget workstations offer just as much if not MORE than semi-pro arrangers.
Ian if you think that workstation users are spending hours to create their music you're dead wrong. Workstation users are just as quick to pop out a tune. It doesn't take long to create multiple versions of patterns on a workstation and chain those together. You make song creation on a workstation sound like it takes forever to get something done when that's just the opposite 
What budget workstations do not offer is the
instant gratification of an arranger.
With the arranger, you
immediately have a full band backing you in
real time, with fancy intros and endings (some like them), real time fills, on bass chord recognition, and in the case of the S900, powerful and expressive SA and mega voices that are superior to most workstations, even some that cost far more.
Arranger players want to play
now , workstation users, not all, mind you, tend to
construct music.
That's why it's called a "work" station...they could have called arrangers "play" stations but I think that term has been copyright by Sony.
I still contend they have different users with different needs...though there will be exceptions.
[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 05-15-2009).]
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