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Originally posted by Diki:
Seems like Yamaha is FAR ahead of Roland in this regard. The XS needs so little corrected for it's OS to be arranger capable, and then it's simply a case of newer arps (which could probably be imported fro the MIDI output of current arranger's patterns, Intro endings, fills, etc) to make it usable.

But without Music Finders, lyric displays and a revised system for accessing those styles (oops, arps!), they still have a ways to go to equal the shear user friendliness of the arranger.

But Yamaha have made a start... Roland, not so much


I agree with Diki here. Of the some what six thousand ARPs in the XS, about half of them are capable of recognizing chord changes. That's half the battle. I have a feeling that we're going to see something very soon which will incorporate both feature sets from Yamaha within the next couple of years.
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