Fair enough, but here's my problem. For every wish out there that would be granted, there would probably be one guy (the wish's author) using it. Take the chord sequencer, for instance. If it were to be reinstated (at great expense to the manufacturer) in a TOTL arranger, you'd have the same two guys using it (Fran and Diki) that used it in the G1000. The other 49,998 users would either see no use for it, consider it more trouble than it was worth, or be completely oblivious to it's existence. I'll bet that if we could see ANY of the major manufacturer's wish lists, the feature requests would number in the thousands. How do they determine which ones would translate to a better bottom line if implemented? Who do they ask? I'm guessing the dealers who sell them and have direct access to customer feedback.

Most feature requests fill a need for a specific individual but is meaningless or insignificant to most everyone else. We want a keyboard to have the keybed/keyfeel of a Steinway but weigh 12lbs. We want waterfall keys to do our organ smears but not when we're doing our piano licks. We want it to perfectly duplicate the pipe organ in St. Peters Cathedral but we don't want to pay over $600. I think wishlists are futile, frustrating, but fun; the three F's. But hey, keep it up. I'm sure it gives the R@D guys at the big three a good laugh with each new RE-issue.

Sorry to sound so negative, but you're just going to have to take what those pre-senile ol' farts give you .

chas