Musicians are more sensitive people then the average Joe, I feel that we are taken advantage of, due to the fact that we are brainwashed to buy the latest and greatest,and this is a sickness that we all have until the end and don't realize it. Now, saying that, I think the companies took small steps in regards to the arrangers,we are in 2014 and we only have 512 megs for sample ram? that should be like 4 gigs, by now,I have said this before, how many times can they re-invent the wheel? how many pianos do they make each year? same thing over and over. Ketron has a good concept,too expensive, but I don't understand, old technology that is not flexible to edit yourself, as far as the audio styles, I don't see anything innovative soon, the only company that is due to WOW! us would be KORG, but YAMAHA is rehashing as usual, although I always likes Roland, it looks that they are out of the game. Lionstracs had alot of features that were strong to a very good arranger, just don't know what exaclty happened with that? so, what would be an arranger in the future? my whish list? lightweight,touch screen, gigs of ram,intelligent features in the styles, audio styles and things that are not found in todays boards, that would get be to hash out so much money for another one.
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Currently main setup on stage are:KORG PA4X,PA1000