I've played an arranger as my main or secondary keyboard for over 15 years now. I originally wanted it to replace the drum machine (TR505) my bandmates were complaining about. I was doing almost all my music with the drum machine until I found MIDI files, then went almost exclusively to using them - leaving the arranger for the odd song that we needed to play.

For the past six months I have been completely solo, still with my arranger but doing about 80/20 midi/styles. I dropped my G70 because of the weight and bulk, but miss the 76 keys and the good keyfeel.

I'm thinking that maybe I should find a nioe digi piano or midi controller and opt out of the styles all together. I still have an Alesis SR16 for drum patterns on the easy stuff and midis for the rest.

What are your thoughts on this subject? What other keyboards might I consider at this time of my life? I'm playing a S900, but just not getting a lot of satisfaction. What about a Juno Stage 76? I would need to be able to play my SMF through the keyboard, as I don't really want to go back to the PC. Other ideas are Sonic Cell, MidJ, something by Casio??? I'm looking for good alternatives to the standard OMB with an arranger keyboard.