From what I've heard so far of the Fantom, its arpeggios are very limited compared with the yamahas'. On the Motif, you could play up to 3 arps with your left hand, and choose whatever voice you'd like for your right hand. This makes it necessarily less busy than what you get with an arranger. Quite often, I only use a guitar arp for my left hand, and another voice for my right. There's something very nice about a simple arrangement like that.

Getting back to Fantom vs Montage/MODX: The Yamahas have superb guitar sounds, the Rolands, not so much, if that's important to you. For me, Yamaha has the best acoustic sounds of any brand. That's why I want to supplement my Motif with an arranger. I might even swap my Motif with the newer MODX, so I get Yamaha's latest sounds, plus an arranger.

Your choice.

Donny what about the new Medeli AKX10 looks very promising.

http://www.medeli.com.hk/x10

What bothers me on the work stations is creating the drum tracks variations for intro,ending and through the song, fills, etc..

Any demos?

Not yet but the features are awesome. It even has usb audio. Not even the Genos has that.

Fran very interesting who knew?

There are 5 variations on the Motif XF, and even more on the Montage/Modx, similar to the 4 variations on an arranger.

Mike stitching all parts together live is my concern...

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