Originally posted by ianmcnll: You're right, Donny...they gotta split the take five ways...you get to keep it ALL!
I can't believe I'm agreeing with you Yep split it 6 & 7 ways for more years then I can remember with my show band & all the problems that go with a big band....but once I went solo about 18 years ago I never looked back! Might not be for everyone ..but it works for me
'And not one lick of auto accompaniment... I rest my case!'
For goodness sake ! did you see the clip ? He had a full band , ass kicking bass player , drummer , guitarist, did you here the style of jazz funk ? Arranger loop patterns could not work in this style of music.... There was absolutely no need to use the arranger functions but he chose to use the PSR for a reason. There is a roland XP80 in the corner I guess what most here would call a 'pro' keyboard this guy chose to gig with a yamaha lower end keyboard and he sounded outstanding. The point is that an arranger does not prevent musicians from using the instrument as a straight up keyboard as the sounds are outstanding and compare well with the other 'Pro keyboards' out there. the advantage the arranger has is in the ability to sound like a full band in certain situations where it is required . I would bet that if this young man put his mind to it he would sound better than michael Vonken and peter Baartman put together ( OK not better than Peter) but you know what i am saying. Its the musician that makes the instrument sound great not the technology.If we could get some younger imaginative musicians into arrangers ( this happening with the Korg PA range for sure ) We will see a diferent breed of arranger/performance musician using the instrumenst in ways similar to Jordan Rudess who in fact uses many arranger type functions such as panel memory registrations, loops and samples with in his live performance,.
[This message has been edited by spalding (edited 10-25-2007).]
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