Bill, that's exactly what I decided.
I've been quite happy with the PA900.

I like the bk9 better, it should have been a hit for that price, tough they made some failures, the double screen was misunderstood and it should have been a single bigger screen, and it should have had the even better ekybed of the G70. I dont think the bk9 is that far behind the totl arrangers of other brands at all... Tough a Fa06 combined with Varranger2 offers more for less money..

The psr s950 is not bad, and will do the job,,, but its so many miles behind the tyros 5, and the upcomming 970 will not make the distance much smaller.. Where the psr s950/970 misses all those great things i like most aboit my T5, 76keys, UI, sa2 sounds, effects, ensemble, the church and theatre and euro organ, the huge flash memmory for user sounds..

Just listen to the Yamaha B3 and realise how far it is from the real thing..




The pa900 in my opinion is as close to the top model, as an arranger can be, and has almost all the same great sounds as a pa3x, its a wise choice if you only need 61 keys..

I was wondering if it's possible to do the following:

Let's say I buy a Korg PA900 (or any other arranger, for that matter) and I use it for its styles, but replace some of the Korg's sounds by the ones in my Motif XF's. For example, I choose a style, let's say Bossa Nova, but instead of having the guitar sound and bass sounds from the Korg play, I switch them with those of the Motif's?

Do you think it would work?

Why not just MIDI both keyboards?

Thanks, Donny, that's exactly what I thought I would need to do, but I was just wondering if it was possible.

Sure you can do it...opne you MIDI both and get them talking to each other it will work fine... many players use a two KB setup just that way for the same reasons....

http://www.synthzone.com/forum/ubbthread..._Tyr#Post388554

Thank you, Donny! That's good news!

Another way to go would be using the Motif & vArranger program..

http://www.varranger.com/

Yes, that would be another way to do it, Donny, with the advantage that the sounds would come from the TOTL Motif. However, I resist using software. I just don't have the brains for it. Besides, I would have to buy a computer. I simply prefer to sit at a keyboard and make music. Call me old fashioned (well, at 53, I guess I am old!).

Hi Mike

While it will be relatively easy to connect to your Motif via Midi, arrangers tend to have limited Midi control features, (Yamaha being particularly poor) although the Korg are normally quite comprehensive.

Fortunately the Motif has excellent Midi capabilities, (Another advantage a Workstation has over an arranger) so you will be able to boost the arranger Midi features by doing a lot of mixing/switching work via the Motif.

Not sure how well you are up with Midi; however here is a tutorial to get you going,

Happy experimenting

Bill