With some serious thought, I’ve decided to leave the arranger keyboard scene. Recently I’ve switched my entire setup to computer. I’ve just not been feeling that the arranger has been meeting my needs. I’ve switched over to DAW’s and VST’s. The workflow (at least for me ) is so much more intuitive.

I just no longer see the point in buying new keyboards anymore for my use. It’s much more sensible as a home musician to buy a new VST rather than an entire new board. It’s considerably cheaper and majorly saves on space.

Had some good back and forth with members here over the years. Wish you all well.

Sqk

With some serious thought, I’ve decided to leave the arranger keyboard scene. Recently I’ve switched my entire setup to computer. I’ve just not been feeling that the arranger has been meeting my needs. I’ve switched over to DAW’s and VST’s. The workflow (at least for me ) is so much more intuitive.

I just no longer see the point in buying new keyboards anymore for my use. It’s much more sensible as a home musician to buy a new VST rather than an entire new board. It’s considerably cheaper and majorly saves on space.

Had some good back and forth with members here over the years. Wish you all well.

Sqk

Let me guess what you got; xPand!2. If so, I agree that it has tons of very good patches. I bought another license for it when it was going for 99 cents. It's their way (Air Music Tech) to get you to upgrade to the expansion bundle. The expansion bundle is a bargain itself. It would be great to be able to call up sounds in xPand!2 by MIDI PC messages. You can sort of solve the problem by creating lots of "rackspaces" in Gig Performer.

I, too, no longer buy high end keyboards anymore thanks to software based instruments and tools though I still play occasional gigs. You can't beat its flexibility. However, it is easy to spend lots of money on software as well.