But he doesn't know everything about Yamaha which is why he shouldn't continue speaking of how trashy they are.

We have all heard it and it still goes on. Fran Carango’s endless posts of how superior his G70 is over all other boards. The far superior sound quality (live in your face), better than Yamaha bla bla.

He owns a Mediastation, a G70, lots of other hi-tech gear and the best he has to show for it are tinny midi files that sound like the standard sound interface on an AWE sound blaster card.
Simple cheesy drum patterns which have no velocity switch, a tinny electric guitar or an EP voice which he plays for the leads. Absolute fundamental Playing “skills” in realtime with the right hand.

So I have a question: why all this hitech gear for such simple fundamental music? All you need is a Casio really…

Its so easy to sit back and bag out everything and claim you have the best n greatest, you sure sound like you know what your talking about. But the proof is in the pudding. You got nothing!

A member (Diki) puts up a post asking a genuine inquisitive question about linking his G70 keyboard with a Yamaha sound engine for the guitar voices and instead of offering any advice on track with his query the best Fran can do is basically tell him he’s wasting his time. What a friendly informative educated piece of advice!

Diki I have heard both Roland’s guitar mode and Yamaha mega guitars, I use guitar strums so much as I play a large amount of acoustic rock and Latin styles. (Maybe I do know what I am talking about here since I actually USE the guitars voices in my playing!!!)

I hope everyone else can see this because I surly can and so many other members who have left this forum saw it aswell…

I truly believe a large percentage of posts that are posted on this “general arranger forum” are never on topic nor are they informative in any way about Arranger keybaords. Its more a like social club for taunts and jokes towards other members.

It’s a shame though because there really are a lot of smart experienced members who do have a lot of genuine information to share, but logging on and seeing half the crap that gets posted really insults their intelligence which I don’t blame them. Another thing it all comes down to which I was I got in trouble for mentioning a few months back – people have too much time on their hands or simply come here to get the attention they cannot find in real life face to face!

Over the past few weeks I have been visiting the Motifator forum and posting there since I now own a Motif XS. Friendly people, very knowledgeable, extremely helpful and un-biased on their opinions.
How a forum really should be!!! Most of the posts are on topic and to the point. If you want to be a tosser and hijack posts - go and join a chatroom on MSN!

To all those members who really are genuine and decent please don’t take offense to this I know who you are and believe me im sorry be quite blunt but I am really only talking about a small portion of the forum who are absolutely KILLING IT! – one can only hope that one day someone will do something about it…

This post will probably get me banned but that’s the risk I am willing to take to voice my onion on this.

Cheers!

Nick