What happened to Arranger KB talk on SZ?....
yep that's right I said it,....
& yes I am as guilty as everyone else...
It just seems there is Very little talk or discussion about what this forum is about and that is just like the title refers to Arranger keyboards. What I wanna know is what your thoughts are on why that is.....? That's all we used to talk about but sadly it is no more or at minimal once in a while and mostly just some you tube demo from who knows where..what is going on ?....is it because nothing NEW has been released lately to talk about ?...or just boredom losing interest?...people moving on to other things lots of people missing?....has anyone else noticed this here....there is just no talk about Arranger KBs?
sorry I just had to mention it and ask.

Donny
I think we've covered a lot of ground talking about all the current and past Arrangers. Talk has veered to the business side, artist discussions, and personal anecdotes, etc.

I mean we know Fran loves his G70, Don loves his Korg, Gary loves his Yamaha, I love my BK9, Chas is a Hammond guy and you love everything for 15 minutes LOL only teasing.
Besides ahraing some specfic tricks or tips with our choosen models where can we go ?
I look at the forum almost everyday so bring on the new stuff.

Donny, I have been so busy delving in to the sd40, I had to re-design my whole studio. There is so much to learn (which is a good thing) that I don’t have time to gloat about it. I need help with learning some of the features (which are many) and AJ has been helpful with that.

I have a feeling that my free time will be tied up continuing to understand the features of this amazing machine. Don has provided me with quite a challenge. I aim to tame this beast.
JM

Ditto!

Repetition makes perfect...
good luck you have a wonderful unit to play with.
Six months from now you'll look back and see your progress for sure.

I’m shootin’ for that Donny!

People keep posting videos of organ players, piano players, jazz bands, djs, track or karaoke "artists"...Not much arranger posting. When I do post one I get the same handful of people commenting and of course saying great things, and a TON of views.
If more people would present recordings or videos of themselves or others doing actual arranger things, it would bring new life to the forum. I know it's a discussion forum, but there haven't been more than half a dozen people post arranger recordings in the past year. To be honest there never have been many. Maybe it would help if there were more.
Maybe it's just easier to find and see things on YouTube?

I agree Don....like I said I as well as most are guilty..sail boats, ailments, off topic, etc, etc,......I\ve posted many things I played or sang,...but when I ask to hear things people play I get slammed for goading so you lose either way here....

Hi... good topic ... I wonder if this (like any forum) is so BIG (since it's so active!) that it's hard to find things, or they get buried by newer notes/threads, etc. For example, I've posted a ton of videos of me playing songs on my arranger, just to share some experience ... and links to audio of my playing, links to registrations that I've shared, files I've shared to help others using iPads and Yamaha registrations, etc. etc. - but some of those were a few years ago, and thus the threads are "lost" due to hundreds of threads following them

I wonder if perhaps some newer readers never get to see some of all of our older posts where we've posted videos / audio samples of our playing etc., and lots of other actual Arranger Keyboard topics - because there are simply SO many threads now on the forum? Don't know how to handle ...

Could it be time to have some sub-forums ... one for videos of our own playing, one for "OT" (off-topic) topics, one for non-arranger but still music-related topics, and one for actual literal Arranger Keyboard topics??

Maybe like this:
General Arranger - On Topic (the actual Arranger specific topics)
General Arranger - Music Related but not Arranger-Specific Topics
General Arranger - OT (Off topic and fun "side topics") not related to Arrangers
General Arranger - Videos and Audio Recordings of Our playing (forum members)
General Arranger - Videos and Audio recordings of others (non-forum members)
(such as videos by Yamaha, Korg, Roland, etc. demo artists, etc.)
etc.?

I know that splitting a forum has its pros and cons ... but this forum is so great that it has grown to be HUGE and perhaps as others mentioned, to encompass many topics in addition to pure "Arranger Keyboard" topics???

Jim

I am in the same mode as Mitch right now, trying to learn a bit more every day with the 970 . . . I am enjoying every minute of it, but definitely time consuming!
I played a few songs this morning using the Free Play styles, and WOW it sounded good! Are there any additional free play styles out there that the S970 can use?
Thanks!