Doubtful Bill... I don't see the arranger makers doing this anytime soon. At the price some of these arrangers go for..., I don't see them doing anything they feel could drive away their biggest buyers.

What'll have to happen is for either of the companies to pick up where the DJX left off. Yamaha in some ways have a rebirth of the DJX line. However, they (for obvious profit) categorized this arranger in their synth line up. The MM6 is somewhat a rebirth of the DJX line. It has very modern styles, has it's roots in the PSR line (made in the PSR factory too), and even has a voice set based on the Motif Classic. Yamaha could have made a few changes to this model and completey relaunched the DJX line and it would have been a big hit. Instead they tried to pass of an arranger keyboard in the Motif family and ended up pissing off a lot of buyers.

Yamaha played the word game with it by using the term patterns instead of styles. The styles on the MM6 aren't as full as you'd find on a typical arranger (as some of them were on the DJX too), but in the end it's an arranger keyboard.

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 12-30-2008).]