Once again, Ian flogs the dead horse of negative Roland comparison, in the vain attempt to cloud the issue and get a rise out of me. As I have said before (and been completely ignored) if Roland's 61's were still viable but their 76's took a beating, you'd have a point. BUT YOU DON'T. Roland have stopped production on ALL arrangers with the exception of the BOTL. Korg haven't stopped production (despite YEARS of you predicting the same thing, Ian - this discussion goes back a LONG time), Ketron haven't stopped production, even Yamaha haven't stopped production They make DGX's and NP-V80's...

76 note arrangers. Plain and simple.

(If you think that the NP-30's action feels ANYTHING like a piano at all, Donny, you really should try to play a real one from time to time! ).

The trouble is, every time you go and give a hard and fast reason why Yamaha shouldn't do something, they go and do it anyway! The NP-V80 is a 76 note arranger. A very poor one, certainly, and without a real piano feeling keybed, too, but a 76 note arranger, nonetheless. So much for market research...

All we get here is 'Yamaha can do no wrong' from its' fanboys, all evidence to the contrary. You can't make the failures they had go away by pretending they didn't happen. And for Yamaha's market research to be the geniuses you make out, they would have to NEVER make a mistake... And that is sadly not the case.

They are making one now. If the S910 is the best 61 MOTL arranger, a 76 S910 would HAVE to be the best 76... Your logic dictates this. But, apparently, only Yamaha's competitors can make a profit selling MOTL and TOTL 76's, while Yamaha's appeal fails completely once you can play well... Yamaha are good at making toys, but scared of competing against others that successfully make a profit (you don't honestly think Korg make a LOSS on the PA2Xpro, do you? ) in a market they know exists.

That fits the facts as well as 'Yamaha can do no wrong'...