The Korg Kronos is already out, and a pointer to a possible future for our arrangers. It has a larger touch screen than any current arranger (if you discount the soft arrangers run on computers), and if the display were leveraged for lyric display of .PDF's, would make a credible alternative to having to tote another piece of kit for lyric and music display.

The cost of large touch sensitive displays has dropped radically since the start of the tablet craze. It is about time some of the arranger manufacturers realized what a boon to the type of acts we do something that large could be. Not to mention the offsetting cost savings of getting rid of most of the sliders and knobs, in favor of on-screen sliders, etc..

There are 20"+ touch screens for sale at little over $200 retail, so manufacturers' cost will be substantially below that. That is probably less than the replacement cost of any arranger's CURRENT touch screen!

Time to get cracking, Korg, Yamaha... (I doubt we'll see Roland move back into TOTL arranger very soon!).