Russ I agree totally with you and DNJ. You too hit the nail on the head. After the first month when I first came to this forum and found out which keyboard that I wanted, (incidentally it wasn't on this forum it was from a "Korg" forum that I made my decision) I only wanted to know about sequencing at the time for my sax playing.

Many here were telling me this keyboard had more sounds and better sounds and so on and so forth than the other keyboard etc. This was boring me to death at the time. No one here knew a thing about sequencing 10 years ago, seriously.

Aren’t we all interested in learning what is the best way to play the keyboard and how to play the keyboard? Really, is the only interest here is to sit around and listen to the different sounds all day.

I just have a hard time in understanding why someone with a musical instrument would not want to learn to keep improving his or her playing ability. Doesn’t this seem like this is a place where this should happen.

Isn't music a bit deeper than just the sounds and number of sounds on a keyboard? I mean you can have the greatest sounding keyboard that's 50 years more advanced than everyone else's keyboard and if you insist on doing it your way (using chords that sound awful) wouldn't that be foolish.

I'm not here because of sounds. I go to the music store to listen to how a keyboard sounds. All keyboards sound great if you can play it. My friend "Jack Ness" who is one of the better musicians that I’ve ever worked with plays his gigs with a Casio. Some of the folks from this forum emailed me and wanted to know what keyboard Jack was using. Ha ha! This is when I knew absolutely nothing about arrangers. Now I chuckle when I think about it.

I think everyone will be elated because I think I’m finished with this subject. My head is starting to hurt from beating it against a brick wall.

TO QUOTE A PHRASE FROM THIS FORUM THAT I’VE READ MANY TIMES, Try to keep this in mind it is one of the most profound statements voiced in the history of this forum from the very first post, IT IS NOT THE KEYBOARD, IT IS THE KEYBOARDIST.
I REALLY DO NOT PLAY KEYBOARD VERY WELL. I’M A SAX PLAYER. HOWEVER, ALONG WITH MY VOCALS, I GET EMBARRASSED IF I HIT A WRONG CHORD AND I’M PLAYING FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHO DOESN’T KNOW A Bb FROM A Q#. Ha ha!
GOOD BY FOR NOW!!