Most manuals aren't too good about style editing....most people learn by trial and error, or have someone show them how to do it.

A lot of my clients want to learn basic style editing...re-voicing, swapping parts around, how to make intros that respond to chords...nothing really hard, but again, the manual isn't always clear....I am kept pretty busy with clinics regarding style editing.

Some people still only use their laptops and PC's for email, Facebook and Twitter, and perhaps a bit of photo editing, but we still have plenty of new features/programs that keep being added, so it will be no different for arrangers,,,new features sell, regardless if everyone uses them.

Yamaha is making style editing available on their lower end arrangers, rather than dropping it...I can't see them dumping a feature whose R&D has been paid for many times over...and one that is still used quite often...I don't think Roland will do anything like that, either.

I suspect the chord sequencer was made redundant for a lot of users when SMF and markers became available on arrangers.

Ian