Well, I believe that Europe and the Middle East are the biggest buyers of arrangers and you have to have and make your own sounds,and not be satisfied with what the factory gives you,Roland super natural sounds and Yamaha Super Articulation sounds just don't take you to the next level or bring you back to the game of arrangers, for me although I have all the brands, KORG is on top followed by KETRON, everyone else is just reinventing the tire. KORG surely does give you a lot for the money just wish they had 1 gig sampler instead of 512 megs. We have 2013 and arrangers should go beyond sampling and audio drums should of been the norm and 15 gigs of sampling ram, I hope that Roland is listening? because for me they are a great company, but they dropped the ball when it comes to arrangers.
We constantly write about the same things over and over and every year the same at NAMM