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Originally posted by adimatis:
yes, my bad, i all forgot about VA series.

i still believe the "prelude" is a prelude to the new top arranger from roland. now, it might come in later than they wanted, due to the bad economy, but later this year or next year they will do it.

and i believe, and hope for, that next roland TOTL, just as prelude, will introduce some (more) serious synth features, like arpeggios, real-time sound modify, in-depth sound editing, etc. and since prelude is another form of the GW-8 synth, why not hope for a fantom-G arranger?


why wasn't VA so succesfull btw? or was it?


The VA series was probably a very big flop for Roland. They offered some new features with the style morphing and d-beam. But one of the biggest negatives on the VA was almost everything was controlled through the touch screen. The G1000 had a nice layout but the VA almost had no layout. Also the styles were just about the same, but there was new voices added. I had a hard time adjusting to VA coming from G1000/EM2000 board.

Let me also say I'm just talking about Roland US, I can't say for Europe, also one of big factors was also the price when it came out.




[This message has been edited by mc (edited 01-27-2009).]
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