Returning production to Europe is going to make the next Roland TOTL (if and when it appears) certainly no bargain...

If $4500+ is the new bellwether for TOTL arrangers (while their WS brethren remain roughly at their price points), how many of us are going to be able to go down that path. I, for one, haven't seen a 25% increase in my business this year (the increase over the old $3500 mark)...

The thing is, I don't see any new or remarkable technology from Roland even on their WS's. How anything new is going to trickle down (the usual direction for innovation) from the WS's beats me. About the only thing of any note is the voice allocation system from the ARX Brass board. Hardly groundbreaking. And the SA type voices on the new Atelier, which have failed to impress me, at least.

There are many 'refinements' that could be made to the G70's OS (see the New Features forum at Roland-arranger.com for a compendium) but none of them would significantly change the G70 into something worth a grand more...

Me, in the meantime, would HAPPILY pay quite a premium (at least $100) for a new OS that SERIOUSLY addresses all the remaining OS clunkers.