The arrangers downfall is still the style section which is boring and repetitive, and the only way to get round this is to turn most of it off and play it yourself, to give it personal flavour. (This is particularly important in the bass)

The other alternative is to do like Lowrey did (May they RIP) and make the style tracks 16, 32 or more bars long (Including fills) with no repeats within this range to help reduce the repetitiveness, also variations to the style with the type of chords played is another option. (Instruments have had the capability in their style sections to allow typically 16 variations/chords within each part (Variation, fill, break, intro, ending etc.) for donkey’s years, (Including the drum parts) so they need to be put to use if you want to rely on styles.

Of course all this becomes irrelevant if you just play the instrument yourself. (As it used to be in years gone by and you could tell who was playing by their playing style, now all you here is the arranger with most punters not being able to tell the difference between an arranger and Karaoke)

No matter what gets bought out it all comes down to the player in the end, do you want to follow what somebody else has programmed, or use your own creativity. (There is no right or wrong answer to this)

Bill