Diki,
I've been screaming for years about how the keyboard companies need to bring today's arrangers..., well simply into "today". Sure they got great acoustic sounds on them today.., and IMO of the top 3 Korg is the closest to a synth/workstation than all of them as their voice editing (onboard) is great, but to date NOT ONE arranger pulls of more modern styles of music and does it really well.

They've always voiced these keyboards for the older crowd. Then Yamaha goes and does something that had HUGE sales and dropped the ball with it (and on purpose IMO). The original Yamaha DJX was out of this world compared to the arrangers out at the time. It wasn't a top end arranger, but the styles on that board were as current as they get! That board had real-time sound control, dirty sampler, and a ribbon controller.

Yamaha was really going in the right direction with it, then just completey dropped the ball and IMO with all intention shot the project dead. The more current version of the DJX is the Yamaha MM6 (an overpriced piece of crap too).., they call this thing a synth and it doesn't even have a portamento.

I think Korg is probably the leader at trying to attract the younger crowds to the pro and semi pro arranger market. Their arrangers have great sounds, (IMO) more live and up to date styles, and the Korg arrangers offer more "WorkStation" features as well such as indepth synth editing, ect.

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 08-20-2008).]