And no... it doesn't HAVE to be something from this century if no-one wants to do it. I was just trying to point out that there ARE things from the last few years that ARE in our 'Rut', but we just may not know it yet

BTW, just curious, but those of us that use the arranger to primarily back our vocals... don't you EVER take solos, play a head or the like?

Maybe this just goes to illustrate one of my pet peeves. Without a chord sequencer, it is MUCH harder to play a really good expressive solo while the LH is tied up slavishly repeating the chords we already just played! But seeing as this thing might allow SMF's (my take would be they HAVE to be derived from your arranger, NOT a commercial SMF), you could always do the backing on one pass from the arranger, then overdub the solos on the second pass. It would still be arranger play, just without the limitations...

Maybe that would encourage more of the singers to participate?