Well, Diki, old pal, we'll have to agree to disagree.

My opinion...

Workstations are/were designed for pros, and are also used by home players.

Arrangers were designed for home players, but some are used by pro players.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

It's quite obvious that far more pros use workstations rather than arrangers...and very few arranger players work as pros.

The most I've ever heard of are the arranger users on SZ...hardly a record number.

How many on Roland Arranger.com?

YPKO has a fairly large arranger user membership, as does PSR Tutorial...only a very, very small percentage use arrangers professionally...they are mostly all home players.

A Workstation's arps aren't full blown accompaniments that include multiple fills and intros/endings, triggered by a one finger chord...big difference...they are mainly used to build up recording tracks...rarely ever used live.

You will never convince me that an instrument with a single finger easy play chord accompaniment wasn't designed as a "home" keyboard first, and a "pro" keyboard second, if at all.

Your G-70 is no more a pro keyboard than a Tyros or a Korg PA2Xpro....stenciling the word "pro" on an instrument doesn't make it so...it's just marketing savvy, hype, or both.

In my opinion, they are only "pro" when a "pro", like yourself, uses them.

Let them ditch the one finger easy play, and then I'll consider them pro.

Ian

[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 03-12-2010).]