Open arrangers should be an open source project, where hobby sound engineers and hobby hadware specialists and hobby programmers work together in order to create an open arranger ...

Sadly this would require dozens of people to work in teams together... Because creating programs, high quallity sounds and styles from scratch takes an enourmous pile of work.

You could also choose to create an arranger, that has soundsets that can import style files of the current arrangers and has specific soundsets that mirror all of the great arrangers, this could be easier, but it would be less legal, and its what Varranger and live-styler try to accomplish, obviously time has proven that the results are so far less stellar then the prebuilt totl arrangers of the big brands... In the end this will only result in a cheeper way to play arranger but at a lower quallity.


The only true way is by starting from scratch with an arranger that surpasses anything currently on the market in innovative features and sound quallity. Build the arranger software, then build a soundset based for instance on NI complete and start slowly expanding the the spund database with sounds required by the styles.

Have another team create the hardware, as a build it yourself keyboard around pc hardware, big touchscreen a good keybed and a dedicated piece of hardware with controlls..

Would not be a cheep solution, mind that, komplete is $1000, pc hardware, would be another $800 soundcard €300 dedicated keybed and controll hardware $700. Big touchscreen $200. Lets say $3000 , And you can start building from there...


But it could end with the best arranger ever... You could also choose a free sample player instead of komplete, but that would net in a lower starting quallity.