Lee,
Yes I've watched many Stagea videos and I think they are incredible instruments. In relation to those wonderful performances there is something I don't like and it's they are pre programmed and all the players, if they are good of course, sound the same like a copy of the original song. That's great for a show but in my case as a home player I would get very bored practicing the exact same pattern and I would give up on the try. I love to flow along the music so I've never taken the time to program the registrations in my Psr for a performance and I know I wouldn't do it on a Stagea either. I play less than an hour a day during the week (when I can) and I wouldn't be able to practice enough those arrangements.
I have not found here other pedals than the Pk5 but I know Roland has another 2 octave model which is much more expensive and lacks all the programmability of the Pk5. Since it is a dedicated pedal for Roland instruments I was afraid it could not work properly with other brands and I didn't take the risk to order one. On the other hand remember you need spare room for a couple of volume pedals and foot switches for your right foot and it won't be easy to place them on top of the pedalboard cabinet. I use two pedals, one for volume the other for modulation wheel functions and 4 switches, 2 for sustain for middle an upper manuals respectively and two for variation up and break fill in the Psr.
Lee what you can do is only limited by your imagination.

Victor

Victor,
I suspect most here could care less what we are taliking about.
I will PM you and we can talk via regular e-mail.

PS..if anyone else here is interested in what we are talking about we will include you. :-)

Lee S.

yes, I think it's a good idea. Live-styler is far from my idea of fun. Isn't the program full of numbers?
Staying away from programs developed for Windows is a good idea.....personally I like none of them.
Q-ranger seems a very nice program. Hope that one day it will be able to be as immediate ,complete and intuitive as a Yamaha arranger.

in fact, I didn't think you were telling us to buy anything. But as you are telling us why your setup works for you, people also have a right to say why for -them- your setup would not work.
Both your reasons and ours are good reasons....it's just different needs and different wants

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Vagro, this is by far the most out there setup I have seen. I can see why you prefer real instruments ,real keyboards to that PC crap. It's equipment for composers who haven't got time to mess around ridicolous PC problems and distractions. Respect.

I have to agree...and the playing is superb.

Ian the Impressed

LIONTRACKS,
You sure you want to do that?
I have the latest version of Live-Styler and it is pretty darn good.

The fact that Mediastation canplay Yamaha styles is not a big deal to you??
AND the new version plays Ketron styles even with a SD-2 if you want!

How in the world will you ever get any real arranger content without playing someone else styles...it take years and LOTS of $$ to create all those styles.

Lee S.

arranger_yes_pc_no and Ian, I appreciate very much your comments, truly.

Victor

Fantastic setup, fantastic playing.

Sadly the only thing it has in common with mine is the little Korg nanokontrol thingy.

I actually agree with Diki here, even though he sounds like a broken record, he makes some very valid points (no offense)....

I have not heard one performance come out of mediastation that actually impresses my ears. I am more visually impressed by what I see though. it does look like an awesome system - check out this video below: the drum software looks so good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-cCt4-caE&feature=related

Maybe Lionstracs need Bert Smorenberg from Yamaha demoing their products??

the Yamaha Motif XF with flash memory is a dead set winner for me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSDOORN79r0

Nick