OK Linda, I get your point. Since I don't own a Casio (never have, likely never will) I can't speak from personal experience about Casio. I was speaking from a marketing prospective, and saying that Casio wouldn't make a huge effort developing arranger styles until it became profitable for them to do so.

A built-in (FREE - like I said) converter does help but they've got a long way to go before Casio instruments will be on a par with Roland, Yamaha, and Korg. In fact, not a single Music Dealer in my area carries any Casio products at all -- no demand -- no market among professional and semi-pro musicians, just amateur home users. That's probably why they're being advertised in toy catalogs. (Say, does your MZ2000 also have "Magic Keyboard Lights?).

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