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Originally posted by HankB:
Also I have gained a lot of weight as I get older and I have found two keyboards do much cover the extended tummy.


Finally... a REALLY good reason for a two keyboard stack That's funny, Hank

I don't care whether arrangers come in a module form or not. What is the PRIMARY reason I don't gig with two has nothing to do with form or weight... It is simply the fact that the manufacturers have almost gone out of their way to make sure you can't link two arrangers together with MIDI cords, and have them work as one.

I would be perfectly happy to haul around another keyboard, or even two, if I could simply and effectively link them in arranger mode, and have the fills, variations, Intros and Endings all selectable from the one master arranger. Then all you need to do is sync registrations with a common code, and individual Parts can be muted per registration, and a compound arranger is doable. To be honest, as long as you could get to the jacks, you wouldn't even have to take the secondary arranger out of the box. Just turn it on and let MIDI do the rest.

BUT NOOOOOoooo......

Don't the manufacturers realize that, with this one SIMPLE addition to the MIDI spec (and it doesn't have to be new codes, just a standardization of the codes already in existence), most of us probably WOULD be using two arrangers (more money for them!) rather than having to try to get the best sound with just one, with that's obvious compromise over two or more..?

Yes, modules would be good, but a module that didn't talk well to other gear is no better than a keyboard that does the same. Make the manufacturers standardize the code FIRST, then the demand (hence profitability) of modules may go up to the point that they start to make them again.

It's the CODES that are holding back the whole thing.
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