Honestly I don't think Korg wants to include arranger functions on their synths like this new one. It appears to me as with other makers that they want to keep a definitive line between the arrangers and the synths. It wouldn't have been hard to include arranger features on this new Korg either. I think (my opinion), that the makers feel that customers will not take a synth like this seriously once they see arranger capabilites due primarily to the negative sterotype attached to arrangers. I know that price is inflated, but given all this new Korg has that price isn't going to come down too much. It's still going to be quite expensive.

Squeak