Hi Diki,

With all due respect but entirely disagree with the part of your view expressed in the quote here above.
First of all about any additional merit of a cheapo arranger keyboard like this simplistic PSR373 over the major top arrangers. Well you may find this hard to believe but e.g. the electric pianos such as DX7 etc. actuallly sound better in this cheapo than what they do in the Ketron SD9. For those sounds alone it would be worth the 150 bucks to me, but there is a lot more. Even the nylon string guitar in this cheap yamaha at least emulates if not beats the ones in the Ketron SD9.
Stringwise, and I am referring to the lush stringpads ( synthstrings etc.) that e.g. you will find in the Korgs and definitely in the old Korg PA50 ( hence also in John C.'s KMA) I venture to say that once again Ketron here did a rather crummy job. The Korg stringpads are far superior and the stringpad ( slowstrings) in the PSR373 once again comes close to beating the similar pads in the Ketron SD9....

About forgetting your Registrations etc.etc. "just turn the darn thing on and play ", you could not be further from the truth imho.
True , these days arrangers are fed ( or rather overfed) with preset Regisrations ( read Songbook, songlist, etc) but the true challenge is of course to utlize the more expensive arrangers in two effective ways:
1 By tweaking sounds, styles, pads, etc. to form an ideal set up for one or more songs, to be saved in a Registration.
2 To ARRANGE, hence its name and not be contented to just play a popsongs with the factory song settings, often pretty poor.
Unless of course you only want to mimmick the original song with the factory settings..Note that here is a big difference between folks who gig a lot, and those (like me) who really ever perform in public but want to record at home and present their songs in arrangements often differing to the original arrangment of a song. I mean what is the use (unless gigging) of me performing say Roy Orbinson's Pretty Woman with an arrangement identical to his ?
Anyway it is nice to see some of the old flock returning here as I was sorry to see so many leave to the Facebook group, no disrespect to the late Don Mason whom I admired greatly both as a person and as a musician.
the Facebook group meanwhile boasts 2700 members, where on earth did these come from, but the whole thing is not coherent to my mind and does not really feel like the family SZ once was and hopefully will become again.

regards
John