Arranger Keyboard

[classic]

Hello all.
I am looking for advice.

I am looking for some kind of arranger Keyboard that can record my playing, may be on different Tracks.

Of course the onbord sounds should be of good.

Want to use it at the home of my girlfriend couse I can't take my studio with me to her.

Just for playing arround, scetsching some ideas.
May bei there are some that can import samples and have addions for its sound.

To that subjekt I am new so some Help would be great.

Thanks to all

[BBFG#]

Why not just a controller keyboard and laptop?

[classic]

Not sure If they have enough power.

[BertKoor]

It's not 2005 any more. A semi-modern laptop will do fine. It has more power than any arranger keyboard, endless expandable (all your fav plugins) and even costs less.

But if you like limitations, there are whole albums made with only a Korg M1. Modern equivalents should be somewhat better. But what do I know, I don't own any.

[graywolf2004]

I owned some arrangers from Korg PA line - PA80, PA500 at least what I can remember. For a plug and play type of thing, they work fine. I didn't use much their sequencer capabilities though, but I'm pretty sure they have this ability. Their power is mosltly about styles - you can create your own ones, it is not that difficult. Great for quick idea sketching - either find a style that works for you or create your own. Also great for fun, occasional singing with friends. Imho a great alternative to karaoke - rather than using a record, you play the back track yourself. Also built in speakers is a convenient thing - no need to connect it to audio system - take it anywhere, plug it into a wall and you are good to go.
If you don't need styles-related stuff, as it was said before, better look at the workstations. But talking workstations, nowadays it is really easier to use something like a DAW + midi keyboard instead. Hardware workstations will loose PC/Mac in usability and features, so I'd go for a hardware workstation only in the case you prefer to work with the hardware and don't need rich feature set of a DAW software.
PS. I'm thinking to get some arranger in the future. Although I don't use them now, I'm missing it sometimes, when you just want to play a song you've heard on the radio (or streaming services, the way it's called now). Or when you just want to sit and play half an hour after your working day. You turn it on and you are good to go, no need to start some software, connect a MIDI keyboard, remember which project to load, etc.

[tapper mike]

I'm a huge fan of the Korg PA family especially the PA5x but it's way out of my budget.
Krome is a nice entry level workstation / arranger though not as powerful on the arranger side of things. Kross is terrible as are all the budget keyboard workstations


I've yet to see a daw that can tritely act like an arranger keyboard. Maybe giglad

I use BIAB for backing tracks and then bring them into my DAW and add my own tracks over them.
It gets expensive quick but the realism of BIAB especially the RealStyles can't be beat for backing.

[tapper mike]

So I've been playing with Giglad for a a bit since making my post
https://deltarray.com/index.html

It's very Yamaha PSR like. But it does allow you to use your own plugins which is a bonus and it accepts Yamaha Styles. Overall I'm actually considering it for myself after making the post.