I feel that arranger manufacturers are struggling to come up with new and more groundbreaking features to generate more interest.

In my case, the Tyros4 will quite likely be my last arranger keyboard as it has everything to suit my needs. The Tyros5, in my opinion, is just a T4 with audio drum based styles and a few other newish features, (although the Ensemble feature is quite nice), and it wasn't worth the upgrade, at least to me.

If the interest in arrangers hasn't actually died out, I feel that it peaked somewhat a few years ago, and is on a decline of sorts.

All arrangers are hobby based instruments in my estimation, although some enterprising and creative performers managed to use them in professional ways.

I do know that the arranger provided me with a lot of work that I may not have got just using traditional keyboards.

Ian