What is the difference?

Question

between an arranger, portable, and workstaion keyboard?

Answer 1

An arranger keyboard is one with styles and sounds. An Arranger is someone who takes a song and creates individual parts for several musicians to play in a band. The term arranger in keyboards is having the ability to play this keyboard with 1 or more fingers. What you are playing is a simple or complex arrangement with very few fingers.
A workstation keyboard is one with a multitrack sequencer and you create an arrangement after you've recorded these tracks.

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One of the chief advantages of an arranger keyboard is that it allows you to arrange your songs. For any particular song you want to play, you select the appropriate style, the right tempo, the right main, layer, and left voices to use. You may also want to adjust the overall sound volume of one or more voice parts. You can decide where you want the split point on your keyboard, whether to put the left-hold option on or not or even whether you want the left hand voice on or off. You can decide to use the harmony/echo features. You can even specify exactly what those harmony/echo features are. You can apply DSP effects and make your keyboard sound like you are playing in a large hall.

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A portable keyboard is being to play it anywhere where A.C. power is not available.

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