Bill,

As much as I respect your opinions, I must disagree with you on this. If you ditched arrangers in the early 90s, you obviously, IMHO, left arrangers while they were still in their technological infancy.

If your theory is valid about this issue, how about providing us with some examples you've created using your system, and to make all things equal, create the same songs that Telmo recently created on his T4 and posted here. Then we can make an educated comparison of the end result using both systems.

I sincerely believe the only reason that film studio producers do not use them is because most are still living in the dark ages (1990s) of musical production. There have been lots of advances in technology of arranger keyboards during the past two decades, but unfortunately, only a handful of individuals have taken the time to explore those advancements and use them to their fullest potential. Keep in mind that it wasn't too many years ago when film production studios used live orchestras and 1-inch tape recorders. The transition to computers and VSTs for this industry was painfully long.

I'm looking forward to hearing your posted examples,

Gary