What I found shocking is that many of the musicians I know who own pro synths, also own arrangers, but don't really say much about them.. I honestly think that those who are so supportive of the pro synths and downtalk the arranger really do know that these keyboards are good. I've owned quite a few pro keyboards, and I'm not afraid to say my PSR-550 has quite a few acoustic sounds that are better. It's like someone said before, it's only an arranger when you press the auto accomp button. With that off you have a regular keyboard. I guess others think arrangers are in a way "cheating" when it comes to writing music, but here's the flip side to that one.. Synths do the same damn thing... They're getting better at it too.. Synths like the Motif and Triton have preset patterns (not styles but patterns)... Plus anyone ever play with the arpeggios on those things...????? You can't play a funky bass line, well choose the correct arpeggio, and play a note or two, and wham bring on the funk... You can't figure out that great riff for a dance song.. Well again choose an arpeggio and that solo just takes off.... Synths have their own little ways of helping you write music quicker as well.. People also knock the one finger style of triggering chords as cheating, but guess what...., synths have a way for you to cheat if you can't play that particular pattern in another key.. You play it in one key, copy the pattern, then you can automatically transpose that copied pattern to any key you want without ever having to play it over.. So if someone wants to say you're cheating with an arranger, it can also be said for a synth.

Squeak

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 04-24-2003).]