One of the reason I avoid music forums of my own language is that arrangers are usually bullied there and there’s no really a discussion going on.

I was growing up with arrangers mostly because entry-level keyboards are usually arrangers. Still, when a time to make money came, I started to play pianos at restaurants and didn’t really consider playing an arranger in public. Well, of course I thought about it, but never got around to do so. Well, I actually played Yamaha MM6 in a coffeehouse, which has an arranger feature, but I also played a piano there as well. I had some need to prove to myself that I’m accepted as a player, not a user. But if I could sing as most of SZ members do, that’d be another story and I guess an arranger would be my choice.

Now I’m shifting to guitars, I guess, and tend to play my PSR more as a workstation, not an arranger. I still expect that it’s just a phase, but it has been lasting for a few years by now.
I thought that Genos would be so seducing that I would be back into arrangers’ world again, but so far the more I learn about it the less I expect it to happen.

I do feel a need to have an arranger at home because sometimes I still may want to play with rhythms, besides it’s like a musical encyclopedia; it gives quite a picture about different styles and how to work with them.

I know that arrangers keep getting better; in the same time I feel less need to “have it all”, I mean, all the sounds and backings; I fear that I’m getting tired of all this variety and loosing the focus and thinking a lot about getting a keyboard even simpler than I have now.