HI ,I AM LOOKING TO BUY AN ARRANGER KEYBOARD ,PRICE DOES NOT REALLY MATTER ,IT CAN BE 61 OR 76 KEYS ,PLEASE HELP

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A few ideas

Not enough information. Such as, What kind of music do you play? Is it for home or gigging? What is your musical and technical background? In the end, you will be told to "try before you buy", which, of course, is exactly what you should do. Since money is no object, I have to assume you're only considering TOTL boards. Each manufacturer's TOTL is better at at least one thing than the other, so it depends on what's important to you. The better question might be, "What are the (consensus) strengths and weaknesses of each?".

Good luck in your search.

chas

Perhaps reading the forum posts for the last month or so might help...
Or perhaps a search of the forum for 'Model X' and 'review' might narrow it down.

Without more details from you (as chas points out), either none of them or ALL of them
is an equally good answer! You are basically asking "I want to paint my house. What is a good color?'

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This question is way too vague to be serious, yet Rayo44 has pulled in the BIG boys.

Any thought that this is a bogus member with a baiting question just to get some heated words going?

Apologies in advance if I'm wrong, which I well could be.

He could begin by getting that Caps Lock button fixed on his computer...

DON'T GET ME WRONG GUYS I AM NOT LOOKING TO SPEND THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ,THE REASON I SAID PRICE DOES NOT MATTER BECAUSE I KNOW A GOOD ARRANGER KEYBOARD COST ABOUT 3000 DOLLARS ,AND I NEED SOMETHING WITH BUILT IN SPEAKERS

why?

Your cap lock is on. Aside from thatI wouldn't listen to anyone here ...but instead,
GO DEMO DIFFERENT MODELS by yourself & use "your own ears" to tell you what is good. Depending on your playing level & affordability there are many choices from Yamaha, Korg, Roland, Ketron that sound good with speakers.BTW what are you playing now?



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See... just that one fact rules out a bunch of arrangers. Audya, T3/T2, PA2Xpro, G70, SD-1. In
fact, it's hard to find many arrangers at your upper price end that ARE around the $3000 mark that have speakers

Speakered TOTL arrangers are pretty much the Korg PA800 and the E80, rest are mostly middle range
arrangers, with fewer features, sounds and capabilities.

Do you play piano? Do you need a 76 keyboard? Or maybe a full 88 (Korg PA588)? That narrows your
choices dramatically. Only speakered 76 is the Roland E60, isn't it?

What arranger(s) have you owned so far, Ray? Is this your first? How old are you (some arrangers are
better than others at doing contemporary music)..? Will you be playing any ethnic musics (Middle East, strict Latin, Oriental, etc.)?

As Donny found out from experience, it is often VERY difficult to go out and TRY them all (without actually
buying them and taking the loss when re-stocked back to the dealer), so that is not necessarily good advice, IMO (if you really took Donny's advice, you
wouldn't listen to HIM, either! Possibly the best advice he has ever given ). Just be a LOT more
specific about your needs, wants and experience level, and you SHOULD get at least some good
practical suggestions.

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