Did I just step into the twilight zone ?

Bill maybe we are talking at cross purposes . We were talking about what a pro musician does 90 % of the time on keyboards that they could not do on an arranger without using styles. So your first example is of TWO musicians playing TWO keyboards at the same time . What was it meant to show that could not be done 90% of the time on an arranger ? Because I agree an arranger can’t reproduce TWO INDEPENDENT musicians at the same time . Definitely the arranger function would be required . But I don’t think the Kronos or fantom or motif could do it either . My guess is ..... you would need TWO pro musicians but maths is not my strong point . 😁

The other example was a modular synth . Is this what a pro musician uses 90% of the time ? Something tells me you are not playing fair 😂😂 or these pros are out of work 90% of the time 🥴.

The next one was joey Francesco playing a real organ for goodness sake unless he was using samples instead of the organ ? Do most pro musicians gig 90 % of the time with a real B3 or HAMMOND ? Do you think joey can do on a motif or fantom or Kronos the same thing he can do on the real thing ? Do you think ANY keyboard can . I am sure your playing with me 👍

The penultimate link was to software that any one can purchase ,load to their lap top and link to ANY KEYBOARD. Did I misunderstand what you were trying to show because I am pretty sure I can link an arranger to a laptop and trigger samples . In fact I am sure that’s possible . But it could be only pros can do that .

The last one was of a live band using again TWO KEYBOARDS . The top one was used for synth leads sometimes with a phaser effect and filter or resonance cut off assigned to the modulation wheel I think but I am pretty sure I can achieve a similar sound using hi pass filters and assigning a resonance and phaser effect to the pitch bend wheel . The second keyboard was for the main keys which from what I could make out was , piano mixed with strings , organ and some kind of pad but the mix wasn’t the best so he could have been playing anything .

So what have we learned here ?

If I have an arranger with another keyboard or I have a real B3 or Hammond and a laptop and I have the ability to clone myself , I can play 90% of what the pros can do ?

Ok Bill I get it now 👍🏿. I won’t bring this up again .

You can’t hear tone Bill but I am just having a little fun with you . All the best . Worth