Um... no, not quite.

Bachus, I mean no offense to you, just pointing out a few things.

Look, I have no love for the management of Generalmusic after the way I was treated by them. But as for the products and the design engineers behind them, I still stand behind everything I ever said about them; GEM was very innovative over the years, and I put my all into the position I had with the company. And by he way, the Genesys was introduced during the current decade and was the first arranger with an internal hard drive, the ability to record stereo audio files and burn those to the included CD-RW drive, 32 track very good sequencer, etc.

Regarding their present circumstances: Generalmusic and Ahlborn-Galanti are still owned by the Galanti family is it has always been. True, the GEM product line is on hiatus (and very well may remain that way, though I hope not). The Ahlborn-Galanti Classic Organ line is alive and well.

The planned follow-up to the Genesys had little to do with the present state of Generalmusic. The DRAKE processor has been around for a number of years at this point and has been through several design upgrades. Several years ago GEM introduced the RP-X Piano Expander Module and the GM-X General MIDI Expander Module, both of which contained a single DRAKE processor. These two modules came about simply because of the work being done toward using DRAKE in an arranger instrument. So basically what was left to do was to port the style and sequencer code into the DRAKE format and design a case to put it all in. That is way over-simplified I know, but the point is the product was being worked on and fairly far along in the design stage.

I am still very fond of Generalmusic products, I miss working for the company very much, and I still have hopes that some miracle will occur and things will turn around for GEM.

Dave McMahan

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Wm. David McMahan
LearnMyKeyboard
JazzItUp Band
The Modulators

[This message has been edited by WDMcM (edited 03-31-2010).]