Hi Seamaster

In all polls of uses that own, have owned, or have known Wersi for a long time, its always the Wersi Spectra that comes out top, (The analogues are a fair way down) as when it was released in 1987 it was way ahead of anything on the market, (It was so good, it took Yamaha more than 3 years to get anywhere close, by which time Wersi added the Livestyle system with its (For then) massive 3MB of sample Ram and 18bit D/A converters)

From then on as we all know, the cost of developing Livestyle and the Grand Piano spin off bought Wersi to its Knees, and bankruptcy ensured.

Ironically the Livestyle and Grand Piano also saved the company, as theLivestyle instruments and technology won that many awards, the banks set up there own management team to run the company, and consequently during the 90s Wersi innovation pretty much went out of the Window.

The technology was eventually bought by Thomas, who still uses it in their instruments today. (Updated of course)

In fact the only true Wersi technology left is Thomas, as the OAS system was not invented or conceived by current Wersi, as they just took over a prototype from Creamware.

Regards

Bill



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