you have made that sattement blindly. As far as real world sounds go any TOTL arranger can compete hread to head with any wprkstation period and in a lot of cases because of super articlulation , they will sound better even compared to the same makers workstation. The Motif Xf does not have SA and cannot compare in terms of real world sounds to the tyros.

Listen to the korg Kronos nylon string guitar i heard one played in Jamal Hartwells demo of the Kronos. It was quite poor and i was quite taken a back. I would love to own a kronos for all kinds of reasons but if you listen to http://www.youtube.com/user/GospelMusicians#p/u/1/ZPVVu0rgRKY at 4.12 you will hear an example of the guitar and hear immediately how poor it compares to say your psr 910, I know Jamal is a keyboard player and he is playing this nylon string guitar like a piano but it sounds poor compared to even the lowest PSR yamaha.

now i dont want to get away from the points you made.we can debate sound palletts all day long but with the sampling capabilities on both workstations and arrangers it just a moot point as you can put whatever sounds you like to a degree on both.

All that you said about a workstaion in terms of creating original tracks from scratch and getting away from repetitive baselines and using the best sounds is true of pretty much all the TOTL arrangers . All you have to do is use the tools on the arranger.

I dont think you have ever programmed an Arpegiator or you would know the same skill is required to program a style track. The workstation does not crreate the content all by itself !!

you said of workstations

All the complaint you constantly read about on here about what arrangers DON'T have can be done with a good workstation if you know how or have the will to learn..is it fun? YES,.....is it intimidating at first? YES....but like anything else once you get into it it will get easier and easier and more gratifying each time you play it...I also think you will be proud of yourself also once you start to be a music "CREATOR" vs a "style operator"......'

You are exactly right but i would aply those words t learning to use your arranger fully a opposed to just playing the stock sounds and styles.

And the example you posted of the Kronos is easily replicated by any arranger wiythout any difficulty at all. the same skills are applied and the same knowledge of editing sounds and laying down sequenced tracks apply.

is that fair comment Donny ?