Wrong on all counts, Ian. Firstly, I have NEVER gone from one model to the next other than when I got the opportunity to swap to a G1000 from a G800 with no hit in price. The ZIP disk made that a no-brainer.

I CHOSE to not go with the V and VA series arrangers. Not because I HAD to... because, as with most Big3 products, and especially Yamaha (IMO), there is such an incremental improvement that you are hardly buying a 'new' product, merely a refined one. My G1000 remained reliable despite an appalling schedule under brutal marine conditions, and is STILL doing great service to a friend of mine that gigs it regularly.

I see little point in upgrading until it IS a REAL upgrade. Unlike so many here I am still convinced the way to sound better is to play better. Not buy the next incremental upgrade arranger and PRETEND I have got better.

As simple as Roland have made tweaking everything in the G and E-series arrangers, I think I don't really find myself upgrading just for variety in my styles, which I fear so many here do.

You and I BOTH know the only thing that will get my juices flowing for the next Roland arranger will be the unlikely reappearance of the Chord Sequencer (RIP )...

Until now, Roland have had roughly the same cycle that Korg and Yamaha have had. One occurrence does not a pattern make. But, as happy as I am with the G70 out of CHOICE, not necessity, I find myself not panicking as much as I am sure many Yamaha users would, under similar circumstances.

I, at least, refuse to confuse dissatisfaction with one's arranger with 'human nature' Personally, I think only those that NEED a better arranger are worried when one doesn't arrive..

(This is an answer to the unedited post... sorry)

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 03-23-2009).]