I would have tried, but Roland is making it very difficult for me and many others in the US, by not shipping the instruments to dealers in various parts of the US, and at the same time not allowing other dealers that do have them (e.g. George Kaye) to sell mail-order.

As a result, many people who used to be loyal to Roland, like myself, have opinions which are based on the information that has been published by Roland and other users, whose opinions they trust.

I, a formerly loyal Roland user (having used Roland gear almost exclusively for the last 15 years), understand how a small company like Ketron or GEM or Liontracks may have distribution problems. But when a large company like Roland pretends to be unable to put an instrument into a location of its dealer within a major metropolitan center in the US, to this looks like they are deliberately abandoning the users.

Regards,
Alex