Really?? That is not always the case Donny. Remember the Tyros2?? It was announced in October of 2005 and went on sale the next month in November of 2005. Out of the thin blue sky. It wasn't announced at NAMM or at Musikmesse... or at any trade show beforehand at all right?? Yet from the announcement by Yammie to going on sale a month later the Tyros2 defied statistics. I'm not saying that will happen with any of the arranger products announced at winter NAMM 2008 but it theoretically could. You never know. I suppose it depends a lot on how far along in the process of production a company is on a certain product and also on how ready they are in ramping up production at any given moment. And also how confident they are in the product itself as far as being bug free on both the hardware and software side of things. If problems come up then of course production would be delayed but if there are no problems and the quality control aspect is taken care of then there is no reason to think that Korg, Roland, Yamaha, etc., couldn't pull it off and bring a product to market in a very short period of time once it had been announced. >> Like Yamaha did with the Tyros2. Then again if we look at the other side of the spectrum we see just the opposite in the Ketron Audya or another example the Kurzweil PC3X which has recently been further delayed in its release. Although the PC3X is not an arranger but it shouldn't make any difference whether workstation or arranger or digital piano, or whatever. Another fine example of bringing a product swiftly to market was the Yamaha Motif ES series if you recall. So it can be done although it is anyone's guess if any of the new keyboard products announced at winter NAMM by any of the Big Three or any of the other keyboard manufacturers will. Time will tell. Let's hope they do though.

Best,
Mike