Yes, I agree that is a bit remarkable. In the store they explained that Roland had a few delays and finally didn't want to postpone the dates for the European demos. They must have considered what would be worse, to go on with the demos with the pre-production models or cancel and admit that things were not quite ready yet.

The demo-tour seems to take about a month and after that the keyboard should be ready, and production starts. But I agree with you that this is not Roland's way of doing things. They must be in a hurry because the competition lauches something new shortly. I can only think of Yamaha, since Korg has the PA1X (strange modelname..) on the market already.

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Tom NL