Although this is not an Arranger Keyboard per se, it is more than capable of arranging beautiful music, as the example shows. As Fran has stated on many occasions...an arranger keyboard can be utilized many different ways. Style play is just one aspect of their capabilities. Try and guess which keyboard performed this piece. All tracks were performed by this single keyboard.

Hmmm.... The piano sounds pretty much like a Casio to me

This is a hard one but i would say that it's something like a Casio WK/CTK keyboard from the late 90s or mid 00s

Not Casio Bradge. Small hint: 1984

Fairlight CMI

Good guess Fran...your in the ballpark!

That could be anything, Sinclavier, Ensoniq, Emulator hard to tell

A Little Clearer

Vangelis got close enough. The Emulator II was released by E-MU Systems in 1984. It was the first cost effective sampler following Fran's choice...the Fairlight CMI and Synclavier.

The demo was performed and recorded by Chris Stone, co-founder of Record Plant in L.A. Chris was an excellent musician, producer and recording engineer. Even though there was an 8 track sequencer, the memory limitations kept you from building a lush arrangement on-board. So tracking your performance was necessary.


The realism in the samples is still pretty amazing considering this was recorded 35 years ago with 8-bit floating sampling.


As Donny and Fran keep reminding us...getting the most out of the keyboard is the key. Not necessarily the latest and greatest keyboard.


jingleman

I still have the Proteus 2000 and 2500 the strings on these baby's are still one of the best out there, even today's standards. I can't get enough EMU so I have a crazy collection going, I love this company it's a shame they went out, like other great ones which were Ensoniq and Technics to name a few