Great to have DIKI back !
I am a professional musician and although it wasnever my main source of income I did ery well . The Arranger became a necessary evil to keep playing out. Bands were getting replace by DJ's and I was doing trios with a female vocalist and guitar player. Played two keyboards , bass pedals, drum machine and sang. Finally got tired of running a band and went solo musician / DJ. Don'thate me, it paid very well and thats what parties wanted.. Then saw my first Arranger so why bring all the equipment when it could do the same job. I now use a BK9 and DJ the stuff I can't play or sing.
I would really prefer to go back to my old way of playing but there is no demand for it and who wants to move all that stuff.
At home I prefer to just play my Roland FP90 piano and learn new music I like. New chord vocings, turnarounds, riffs, songs I will never do on a gig, whatever.
So this forum has served me well and I hope will continue to in the future with experts here to answer questions.