Excuse me but isn't the whoe "idea" and primary purpose of an Arranger Keyboard to recreate rather than to create?

MOst of the "styles" are yesterday;s creations allowing a single player to recreate a cover song as closely as possible to the original producer's intent...be it David Foster,Glenn Miller or Barry Gordy.

Creating something new and fresh on an Arranger keyboard is a task without a Workstation and/or DAW. The mere creation of a style on the Tyros is a task better left to the Motif in my house.

The Workflow is not what I am used to in that regard. There is where I believe Diki hangs on to his Roland. I am betting it may be able to do both equally well. I thought initially the Korg PA2x would give me the "all in one" solution but it did not.

I have two areas I have to cover. Original material for myself and some clients (which is easy when they specify Motown, of Hoedown,,,My own music is constrained by the Tyros.

The other area is creating cover song backing tracks for my wife who carrys only a netbook with itouch back up, a guitar and 88 keys, The Tyros pays for itself. The Motif not so much....LOL which is why unless I can get a straight across sale/purchase of the XS8 to the XF I won't jump.But I will pay up to the T4 to the point of selling the T3 for less than $2000 if need be.

[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 09-26-2010).]