I am often surprised at how little some of the features I consider essential get used by many players.

Case in point, I know I argued here for years about how useful the chord sequencer was, back when it was a Roland exclusive (or close to it), and was mostly met with blank stares and statements like 'why would I use something like that?' Strangely, Roland all but dropped the feature (I think it all but disappeared from the G1000 until the BK-9 and disappeared again) while both its major competitors picked it up and even considerably improved it (storage of CS files linked to registrations).

But I still don't read about many using it. Which puzzles me enormously. I can understand to a certain extent those that have only really mastered the one finger chord/one finger to solo playing style, although even there I wonder why they don't use the CS so that they can dedicate BOTH fingers to the solo LOL

But for anyone that CAN play with both hands, why would you want to tie up one hand repetitively inputting the same chords over and over? Many of us older players started out in bands, or playing organs with both hands and feet, often playing early synths with bend levers and expression wheels etc. None of which you can touch if your LH has to keep inputting the damn chords!

I'd love to find out how many of us that have arrangers that DO have a Chord Sequencer actually use it? Now that most do, is it being used as much as it could?