Dear Jonny;

If they do that, manufacturers can expect zero sales. At double the price you will have the Oasis ( 8k). Jonny, you must be independantly wealthy [ or else be a kept man ] because the top model arrangers are already exorbently priced for what one receives. What we need is new & eager Chinese or Korean Keyboard manufacturers to jump in an obliterate the competition at half the price. Maybe Alesis will make an arranger version of their Fusion available. They already make a workstaion that eats the competion at a lower cost. Companies should stop watching the net and work on their R & D ( i.e. stop rehashing the same technology & come up with new ideas) New realeased flag ship arrangers should be leaps and bounds ahead of their company's last KB. I can't wait for some small tech company to make a softsynth arranger that is modular and infinetely upgradable, with state of the art sound generation, in which one can easily create styles sounds etc... at a reasonable cost, since it is based on computer technology readily available, from a plethora of computer manufacturers. Then the big 3 can keep their styles in a vault & protect them.


Regards;
BN