Amen to both the above posts... wet myself reading the last one

Sorry, Ian, you're right.. we both swim in the same sea and get up to the same shenanigans. With you, in particular and with several others, I must confess to receiving and dishing the same stuff, I just don't get as worked up about it. But about the only thing getting my goat lately here are just unveiled, unsubtle and absolutely unfunny personal flames, without the slightest attempt to make them arranger orientated... (or even toss in a smilie or two )

You never fall into that, and I appreciate that. Occasionally, both of us rub each other the wrong way, but it never gets personal (or at least I know it isn't intended that way) in the mean way that some others do...

However, perhaps one thing that you and I have differently... My criticisms of the Yamaha's are done with a wish to actually OWN one... IF they had 76's, IF they were better built without the huge cost penalty that the T3 imposes, IF the MIDI implementation was more flexible, etc., etc., I'd actually own one, and integrate it with my G70. I have a nasty feeling most of what you criticize the Roland's for isn't with a view to making it acceptable enough to own...

I have a feeling most of your Roland jibes are done simply to exult in Yamaha's 'perceived' superiority . Which, for many aspects, it has. But don't think for one minute that, IF I owned an S900, I wouldn't be finding as much wrong with it as my G70 has! That's just me.

I often come here to basically voice how and why I think things could be much better with arrangers than they are right now. And this, as anyone should know, includes my own arranger as much as anyone else's. I think this is our difference. I simply want things to be better, whether with your arranger or mine..

And you seldom appear to want ANYTHING better...