95% of Arrangers are sold to the Home market and are usually setup in the lounge; therefore looks are of paramount importance. (If you have a female partner then this becomes even more critical)

If you have your own studio or room in which to place them, then ease of operation and sound take precedent.

Bill

Sorry, Bill, but basically, ALL arrangers are equally ugly as furniture until you get to the piano lookalikes... OK, maybe in this one's case there's an extra degree of ugly, but it's simply a matter of degree.

Let's face it, as crippled as most 'furniture' arrangers are compared to their portable cousins, it's obvious that the missus gets to wear the pants in houses that have those in them!

BTW, Nedim, thanks for actually getting my point...

Mind you, on a forum of mainly elderly arranger players, I'm pretty sure hardly anyone actually uses a groovebox, and it's pretty obvious few realize what that particular form of playing really needs (or at least what the majority of practitioners of the form actually use) even though a simple scan through the groovebox section in any catalog might show them...

It takes more than silk-screening a word onto a keyboard to actually make it into what is being printed... Just as putting the word "Workstation" onto an arranger doesn't make it into one (at least, not in the contemporary sense of the word), putting the words 'Arranger' or 'Groovebox' onto the MS doesn't magically turn it into one.

Are looks important? Evidently so. Last year, when two young ladies were paying their bill at the restaurant I was working, one said" You know, if you don't look up, he (me) sounds way younger and better looking than he is" (LOL)!


Russ (I need a face lift) Lay

Of course Diki that definitly includes you also.

Absolutely, Donny... but, OTOH, I use an MPC at the studio, work with hiphop and rap artists occasionally, and play a lot of contemporary music. Plus, I keep up with what is happening technologically. Aging is more a product of what you DO than how old you are...

Play doo-wop to bluehairs, and soon enough you are one of them! Stay young, my friend...