The Motif is NOT even close to playing with styles as we know it...I had one, I still have a Kurz K2600 same game, patterns, arps etc. Beautiful instrumentfor sure!

There are patterns...yes they are midi patterns...that where it stops. You have to PROGRAM all the stuff you want for a song. Or yuo can use the built in patterns...no intos, no ending no VARS, breaks, filles as we know them. They do have sections so it kind of starts looking like styles...but no real banana.

Yes it is true a very talented WS programmer can make that baby talk.

I rturned it..I don't have the that kind of time to devote to all the programming/setup.
Why in the 'H' would a guy on stage need styles? That's who mostly buy the WS's. Sure songwriter, but sog writers justuse Pianos too. They are creative, and if you want to get away from styles as we know them...go for it.

IMHO, they are not a one man band instrument.

But they have great sounds, great ARPs, KARMA in the case of Korg, and you have more programming and sampling that you could use in a lifetime.

I once tried to MAKE an arranger out of a Kurzweil K2600X and tried various methods to do the styles, Livestyler on PC, Yamaha QY100, Akai something or other, and got very frustrated. The thing is, if you want to spend days and days you can get it to work kind of,,,The integration is not there AND the content is not there.

Lee S.