Hi Tony.
I've posted 3 video's showing how the arranger operates. Surly from that you can get some sort of idea of what it works like as a Arranger and how it sounds with the default bank of sounds that come with the keyboard.

Arranger Introduction http://www.youtube.com/irishacts#p/u/8/UzE4acDql0s

Arranger, optimising a Style. http://www.youtube.com/irishacts#p/u/4/uKlI3NDqrHA

Arranger with external sound module. http://www.youtube.com/irishacts#p/u/3/l2buudc9DOo

Bearing all that in mind and how long it took me to optimise a style. There's nothing stopping me from doing that to a collection of styles in order to make a “Best Of” bank.


So as you can see, it does indeed function as an arranger. The problem is Live Arranger doesn’t offer everything an Arranger user wants, and how it's implemented is not exactly ideal. None of which has anything to do with Lionstracs.

However... it will very soon as under OS 5.0 a new version of Qranger will be released and as this will be the main arranger program going forward, lets stick a pin in all this until then. If it works and offers everything an arranger user could want, then there's nothing stopping it from being just as good a Arranger as it is a Workstation right now.

All you need is the content preloaded, or someone to do the work for you,...or you learn how to do it yourself

Regards
James