Most everyone is good with just a few sounds, piano(s), half-dozen or so guitars, a few saxophones, a couple organs, some decent brass, strings for layers, a mandolin, a couple harmonicas, maybe a fiddle or two. As for styles, the more the better. Styles, especially great style files, are one of the reasons I've stayed with Yamaha for all these years. I have over 50,000 of them in my archives, and just about once a day someone posts another new one. Granted, they're primarily remakes of original styles, ones that have been modified by someone for a specific song. But damned, they really sound great, the audiences love them, and I love them.

I have all the G-70 styles that have been converted to Yamaha format. Also have most of the Korgs, as well as a half-dozen other makes, and dozens of models of each manufacturer. Each has been tuned and tweaked to perfection and the right hand voices are superbly tuned. What more could you ask for?

Now, I'm not a betting man, but I would venture a guess that the same process has been performed for most other manufacturers arranger keyboards. I'm fairly confident that someone has sat down at their PC and put together conversions of Yamaha to Korg, Roland, etc..., and I think they would probably sound pretty good. I just don't know, though.

Cheers,

Gary