Donny, I disagree. Many of the styles, at least from MY perspective, are excellent and can be used for a variety of songs, including some of the so called Dance Styles.

One of the musical exercises I used to do to keep up my chops was to select a song in a traditional style, lets say "You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Lucille" then go through nearly every style on the keyboard at the same tempo and continue playing this song till my fingers got tired. I did this at least once a week, and in the process, discovered more and more great styles on the keyboard that worked great with other songs I enjoyed performing. When the Christmas parties began, in early December, I experimented with traditional Christmas songs and played some as Reggae, some as Jazz, some as Hip-Hop, etc... The audiences absolutely loved the change, sang along with me and I had a ball performing them. This led to my posting my Christmas Gig Disks on the PSR Tutorial, where they have been downloaded from thousands of times over the years.

Additionally, there are thousands upon thousands of third party styles available at the PSR Tutorial site that can be accessed free of charge. The folks that created many of them are pure geniuses to say the very least. They can construct a style from either a midi file, or from scratch in the blink of an eye, and post it an hour after someone with lesser skills requests the style. I have about 50,000 of these on hand and have gone through all of them at one time or another over a period of many years. I used about 75 custom, song specific styles in the construction of my Music Finder Directory.

Yes, there is a better way, but this takes a lot of time and dedication to set up a single arranger keyboard. Buying a keyboard and expecting to be able to go out and perform with it the same afternoon, to me, just doesn't cut it. I spent, on average, about 3 to 4 months setting up a new keyboard, because I always wanted it to sound better than the previous board - and it always did! Even with the same songs I performed in the past.

All the best,

Gary