Considering the present economic climate, I think Yamaha and Korg will be concentrating on developing/improving their own TOTL arranger technology, rather than try to adapt/adopt Ketron's half hearted attempt at audio tracks in styles in their own products.

Listening to the Korg demos posted recently on another thread, and also hearing Yamaha's mega voiced styles on my own instruments, I'd say that they both have it pretty well covered as far as style realism is concerned....and they read all the chords without any issues.

Roland has had nothing new on offer in quite some time in their arrangers, so maybe they might benefit from a collaboration with Ketron/Audya, and come up with an excellent TOTL instrument that can finally compete with Korg and Yamaha.

Roland makes arrangers in Italy so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch, and they certainly have a great R&D department that just may be able to make use of Ketron's technology.

Ian



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