It simple beats me why anyone would think that ANY of the arranger manufacturers are going to move wholesale away from the position they are in now...

The T3 will be VERY similar to the T2. Any new Roland will be VERY similar to the E80. The PA2X Pro is VERY similar to the PA1Xpro... OK, the Audya MIGHT be a radical departure from the SD-1, but I doubt it. It's probably the SD-1 OS with some new stuff tacked on.

The way it goes is, unless the company is tanking in a bad way, completely redesigning and revamping the whole thing is going to alienate all the users that already love the current model, and be a toss-up whether it flies with new users. Those aren't good odds, IMO...

So, while most of make noise about wanting radically different stuff, truth is, we will probably spend more time whining about whatever our favorite feature that has been dropped was, than praising the new stuff! So, model changes tend to be incremental, no matter how hard we press them... They know us better than we know ourselves, I think

The only area I tend to disagree with is Yamaha's unwillingness to even TRY a 76. Most of us that express an interest in one of these are NOT asking that Yamaha drop the 61 S900's or T2's. We simply want them to ADD to the lineup, so no disruption to those that are already more than happy with the way things already are... It's frightening how defensive some members here get at the thought of a 76 Yamaha, but if it doesn't change their options at all, why are they so adamant that Yamaha not even TRY this segment of the market? It wouldn't affect them in the slightest. Dog in a manger, I guess...

But, whatever... I guess we shouldn't expect any kind of change at all, especially as how every manufacturer is going out of their way to keep things as close as possible to where they are now...

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 08-17-2008).]