I have never said I'm an arranger mode purist. In fact, due to the fact that I DO like to solo on horn sounds a lot (comes from being a trombonist, I guess), I like to use SMF's on a lot of my material.

But I derive quite a lot of these from arranger play in the first place, so there IS a connection, and then I leverage the Mark/Jump buttons to get some flexibility of structure back into the SMF.

The audience doesn't CARE one way or the other, so neither do I...!