For this post I am referring to TOTL.
If you look at the arranger market or any keyboard market in its most simplest terms, they can be divided in to the home market and the professional market.

For arrangers, manufacturers try to cater to the home market, whiled trying to pick up some of the professional arranger market.


Yamaha has one concept and Roland, Korg, Ketron and Lionstrack have another approach.


Yamaha builds its arranger for the home user and includes some pro features to get some of the pro market. Yamaha’s concept is build it for the home market and who wants to use it professionally can do so.
Where as the other brands build their arrangers for the pro and believes that if it is good for a pro, it is good for the home user.
That is why you see more advance features on other arrangers as opposed to Yamaha.
So that is another way the arranger market is fragmented.

It is going to be interesting to see what Korg and Roland do with their TOTL arrangers now.


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I have shortened my ID to TTG