It is true that some of the members now communicate on FB in “Arranger Keyboard Players” group; but, I guess, the initial problem is in the product itself. As I keep complaining, by today’s standards, keyboards are rather expensive and not so good. It’s hard to attract a crowd with an entry level product which costs around $500 and a decent model costs $2000-$5000. I imagine that $500 is something that most people consider a sensible expanse for a thing like this, and for $1000 you should be able to get a whole package. So people just walk away, get distracted by other things. In my case I’m more busy with my guitar right now.

I understand that it works like a circle, people should buy more of a product to make it cheaper and the product should be cheaper so that people would buy it. This logic doesn’t really give a hope that arrangers will get cheaper.

So far people prefer to buy a MIDI keyboards and to use it with VSTs. I don’t find VSTs that great, but flexibility and affordability do a trick.

Perhaps, in some not English-spoken countries arrangers are more popular. Not sure that Russia is one of them, in some way we are much closer to US than to some neighboring states.

So far, with this prices, it’s hard to promote arranger keyboards; and just look how little PSR-E463 has improved comparing to PSR-E403. It’s not really the kind of progress which people expect in today’s world.