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owever the first question is..what do I want to accomplish? This simple question becomes muddied by the new types of keyboards, stuff that does 'sort' of what Band in a Box does, that is arranges, sort of...but not quite.




Agreed ... vendors confound the area by each trying to expand their own platforms, with everyone from keyboard makers, to software, to computer boxes overlapping (but with different terminology to differentiate themselves in the market place and to confuse the uninitiated).

I'm leaning towards synthesizing everything on my computer, so that I can use Realtracks/Realdrums (everyone has good things to say about them). For practice, it's a lot neater to keep all the synthesis inside the Roland, rather than running through a mixer.