Roland really confuses me at times. For the life of me I can't understand why Roland has left off such basic features on some of their arrangers that can be found on Casio's costing $299.00

Who in the hell at Roland decided that the most basic ability to adjust your volume and pan after recording a user song "isn't" important?

Currently (since the newer E series isn't here in the US yet), I can only think of one arranger Roland has that does these simple yet basic things, and that's the G-70.

Neither the EX 3/5/7-3s/5s/7s, E-09, or even the GW-7 can do it. Fortunately the newer E series (E-50/60) will have these features, but what that means is that Roland STILL TO DATE will not have an arranger keyboard for under $1,000 that will do post song editing, or even style recording.

Thankfully they listened to users and added these features to the new E series, but still--one has to shell out what $1,200-$1,300 to start?

That's where when it comes to "features" I think Yammie has had the edge on Roland for some time in the arranger market--(I feel Roland has had the better build quality though). Hell even lower (and I mean lower) budget Yamaha's have more options for song recording than some or Roland's arrangers costing twice as much.

What gives Roland? When are you guys going to compete with arrangers in the $1,000 and less market and give users options they can really use?

Squeak

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 07-11-2006).]