I don't know if I understood your answer bill . How do you create original pieces of music ? Do you acquire sequences and loops from the net or do you actually create your own original music ? Actually playing into the instrument or daw your your own beats sequences ? What is your process in making original music ? Do you have any examples you could share ?

I accept your point that a workstation is more advanced than an arranger workstation , that's never been the issue . Whether your controller keyboard has 8 plus 8 real time assignable knobs and mine just has 8 or you have access to many thousands of loops on the net (I do too by the way ) is really irrelevant to the point I am making about similarity .

Certainly your assumption about using an arranger to mimic big band music does not accord with what I do on mine .

In a few weeks I will have the authority to post up clips from my choirs DVD "praise is what we do 2 " and there is not a big band arrangement in sight 😀 (but you have given me an idea !) .

I pasted a clip of the Kronos tutorial done by a korg demonstrator using the onboard sequencer . The only element I would not be able to replicate on my ten year old arranger was audio recording and karma . Now before you say it I know that he was just scratching the surface of the Kronos workstation , yes that's true but similarly ( there's that word again ) I would be just scratching the surface of my korg arranger sequencer . He could have used the assignable knobs for additional functions etc (so could I on my korg pa ) He could have gone on to show how the assignable knobs could be used in the mixer to pan instruments , control master effects per track etc (as can my korg pa ) but in the basic demo he was showing the ease of use of the kronos sequencer . The process or work flow was very similar to my own . The true reason these demos are not done on an a arranger keyboard and only certain aspects of the arranger keyboard are emphasised is to keep the market segmented to increase profits .