Originally posted by trtjazz:
NY,
I can't really disagree that the price of all arrangers are pretty high. I'd even go so far as to say at $3k they have reached my upper limit as far as perceived value by me. After this price bracket then they truly need to do a combo board that has everything on it that a great arranger and a great workstation have. Including what you have mentioned and for me an arppegiator would be a must have. I'm really not sure why an arranger should cost that much more than a workstation.
jam on,
Terry
The price of arrangers might seem ridiculously high, but bear in mind this isn't the materials cost we are talking about. The research and development that goes into these machines, the studio time for sampling all those instruments and the licensing of samples etc, the cost of creating custom i.c's for new machines ( I dont mean producing them), the specialised market output, its no wonder they have to keep them high in price. If more people bought them, the cost would come down. Consider the technology we get today and compare it to 20 years ago, there's a lot of bang for buck in these boxes!
S.
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