Agreed. Actually I never disagreed with your MAIN premise...except for my perception of most (but not all) arranger players as a bunch of lazy ol' farts who would give up their first-born before giving up their car's GPS/navigation system (I'm standing in front of a mirror as I say this ) and would NEVER buy a manual shift car even if it had 50% better performance than it's automatic counterpart.

Seriously though, I think this gap between arranger technology and computer technology is deliberate on the part of the manufacturers. It's always been that way and will always be that way as long as that approach can produce some kind of marketing edge. I don't know how that works but obviously THEY do. Of course this only works because we are willing to accept such scant and meager improvements before plopping down a wad of cash for the next 'latest/greatest'. Truth is, I've heard performances on the T5 that were as good or better than anything I've heard on the Genos. Same with the PA3x vs PA4x. So as usual, Paul is right; "It ain't the keyboard, it's the keyboardist" (of course a great keyboard helps ).

chas