Let's not miss the point that the REALLY important thing in the WERSI is their SOFTWARE PROGRAM (AutoAcc-manager, etc.) which RUNS UNDER Windows ALREADY.

Wersi might not overlook their benefit in selling thousands of the Wersi-Arranger-in-CD for about $200 or even less, with negligible incremental cost to their present investments. I wouldn't even be surprised if the WERSI PROGRAM, copied into our hard disks, runs as-is!

Several persons and myself have expressed interest on PC-SOFTWARE arrangers. I feel it's an unavoidable outcome. Why?

One can not avoid observing that a laptop already has:

1. The operating system
2. The memory
3. The floppy drive
4. The hard-disk
5. Many buttons (keys)and cursor controls to taste.
6. The "BIG" display everybody wants
7. A sound card and sound output ports.
8. The MIDI, firewire, USB(all externally expandable)ports
9. The CD (writer to burn CD's)
10. The internet connection for styles etc.

It is weird nowdays to insist on duplicating those devices (and charging for them) on musical arrangers when practically any one has a PC, or could buy one with the price reduction of not duplicating those items (laptops are getting cheaper and better).

-Not to mention, the crowding of the arrangers with more buttons than a regular laptop has for keys-.

Then we could have simpler musical keyboards with nice, big, uncrowded REAL-TIME controls such as draw-bars, joy-sticks, wheels, and some, but not very many, buttons (mushroom size and illuminated, if desired, just like in power plants).

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For sound, I can say that the technology is now trivial to send DIGITAL SOUND to remote amplified-speakers WITH NO CABLES.

I can play my amplified speakers from any keyboard across the street, or down-stairs with no wires, no cables, no noise pickup to mystified observers.

I did it by modifying a set of $39.00 DIGITAL wireless headphones, with just a small screw-driver and a soldering iron. I'll post a picture and instructions if any one is interested).

I never designed music keyboards but do have engineering insight and a little common sense into a few things.

mbl