If nothing else,putting keyboards into different categories aids in people choosing the appropriate keyboard for their specific needs. Some people don't want to pay extra for all of the additional auto accompaniments & such and I've read where the Yamaha Tyros 3 does not integrate nearly as well with a PC as the Motif series does. The Tyros 3 costs $2200 more than the Motif XF6 and for what?? Just so people who are too lazy or inept to create their own accompaniments? Arrangers are for old farts in retirement homes and people who play at weddings & barmitzvahs. It would be pretty silly to slap an arranger label on a Motif XF,whereby a person takes a keyboard home thinking that they've bought a keyboard that has all of the automation that they wanted,when in fact,it doesn't.
What...you people think that the word arranger is merely a label manufacturers and retailers use to extort extra money out of people? If that were true,people would eventually get hip to the scam and it would-at some point,kill the sales of arrangers altogether.
As it is,workstations out sell arrangers and this is pretty evident,just by measuring the amount of discussions about workstations versus arrangers amongst various forums. Anywhere you look,you'll find more product reviews on workstations,then you will on arrangers. More and more,I see new software coming out that is so automated,that a person does not have to have an ounce of musical ability to create music and it's people like that,that keep the sales of arranger keyboards alive.
There is however,one scenario where a software program like Band In A Box is useful,such as a guitarist,who wants to lay down a song without having to bring a band into his studio. Still though,I know plenty of people who learn keyboards as well and do all of their own accompaniments using pattern sequencing on a workstation,which is so much more creative and original. If a guitarist has enough musical ability to play guitar,then learning a keyboard is a breeze,as a keybed is so much more linear.
If you people are going to label all keyboards as being arrangers,then you might as well label the Band In A Box software as being the same as Cubase,Logic,Ableton and all the rest.
If you people worked in a music store,would you go around telling all of your customers that all of your digital keyboards are arrangers? Don't you think that would cause some confusion amongst some of your potential buyers? Don't you think that might be a bit detrimental to your employment at that store?
Then again,you could get a job at Wal-Mart and tell your customers that the sky is green and the grass is blue and at least of them will believe it.
I've been on several different gear forums over the years and this is the only forum I've ever seen,where people put up an endless argument over what constitutes an arranger keyboard and what does not.
According to you people though,virtually every digital keyboard out there is in fact,an arranger...so I guess that means that you've people have been imbued with a unique & rare gift for determining what is an actual arranger.
No one else on the net has been able to uncover the underlying truth about keyboards and I guess I've stumbled upon the most astute and elite group of knowledegable musicians on the entire internet....how nice.
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