Thanks for the response Ian and Dikki. I am not a technophobe. I use computers at work all day. The last thing I want to do when I get home is to switch on the computer. But the thing is when I switch on my keyboard I start to play as I start to play I get ideas and as I get ideas I start to compose and as I start to compose I use the sequencer on the instrument along with styles I might start to form. Or I might just straight sequence everything from scratch . And I use all the onboard features to quite a defined degree. Then I take my music onboard the instrument to choir meetings and play from the keyboard my ideas with the choir and if they like it fine. If not then I might edit the piece whilst I am there , copy and paste the chorus with a key change , add new brass lines , bass lines etc so the instrument is integral to how I work . That's my work flow ,that's why I love having an on-board all in one package on my keyboard.

Also I'm a family man and therefore have limited space even for my keyboard set up at home .so space is a premium thing as is any free time .

Therefore anything that impedes my immediate workflow , no matter how more practical might seem to you Dikki actual has the opposite effect for me .

I am clearly not the only person who has a work flow like this as most workstations actually have a pretty decent onboard sequencer and sound editor . I'm fact all the pro workstations have this kurzweil yamaha motif korg roland fantom s,x,and g !

I predicted many years ago on synthzone that workstations and arranger keyboards will meld into a single pot of performance instruments. The Motif has come the closest to this and it may well be my next "arranger keyboard ".