Bill , and in fact anyone that actually has an interest in sound creation , watch these 3 videos which consist of some very good tutorials on the tools used on all workstations for making sounds , any sound you care to imagine. This will be intersting even to those that have never made a sound on their keyboard before.

After watching the videos, i want you to ask yourself Bill if these same components and functions and much more are not available on pretty much every arranger made since 2000.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=73730&start=0

Your arguments about how much more contemporary workstations can do are straw man arguments because the vast majoriy of ALL keyboard players (both arrranger and workstation ) will not ever go beyond the basic principles of sound creation. At best they wil tweak some sounds to make the sounds darker or lighter , thicker or more thin, with slower attack or more aggressive attack, decays etc. There are very few workstation users that create their own sounds which is why third party commercial sounds are so readily available for workstations such as korg, yamaha, kurweil, roland etc. Does this lack of knowledge generally prevent most workstation customers from purchasing workstations ????? The answer is no. But this same lack of knowledge will and has prevented keyboard palyers from purchasing arranger keyboards. they make the same error you have made . They compare specs and because one might have a more detailed spec than the other they make their purchase based upon technicality , not on quality or best fit for their needs. The Korg kronos for example boasts 9 synth engines. How much do you believe the average purchaser of the Korg Kronos understands about the differences in the synth engines or the sounds that could be made from each ????? Go ion the Korg forum and read for yourself if you suspect i am just speculating to win an argument.

Korg have sold a boatload of Konos's based upon the boast of having 9 synth engines where as to my ears the Yamaha XS/XF sounds better than the Korg Kronos in almost every category from only one synth engine that is more than 15 years old . Are folks still buying the XS/XF even though on paper it potentially is 8 times less able to reach the same sonic capabilities of the Kronos ??? Yes they are.

The point i am making is that its not about the spec of the keyboard. It about what you undertand and percieve those specs might mean in translation to helping you make music.

Ther is an inaccurate perception of arranger keyboards and your blind assertions about perceived differene in capabilities demonstrates that every time.

have a listen to this demonstartiion from the same guy that did the PA3X demo .

Answer this, could he programme the pa3X to do a similar demonstration ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGKiVHVCHVc&feature=plcp