Originally posted by to the genesys:
The topic was whats up with Roland.
We have not seen a TOTL arranger from them in a long time and if they are out of the arranger game, it could be because they were making well made products.
That was their downfall since if you make a product that your customers can keep for 10 years or more, then it makes it very difficult to sell a new product to them.
I disagree, so we'll have to agree to disagree.
Yamaha was already making quality products that customers kept for 10 years or more...witness the many owners of 9000/8000/3000/2000...no different than Roland's tactics.
Where they do differ is that Yamaha also makes new arrangers with incremental upgrades, each arranger very capable of lasting over 10 years in the hands of a happy user, which they are doing as we speak.
Roland is out of the arranger game, not because they produced well made instruments, but these instruments were the victims of poor product placement, poor marketing and dismal promotion.
They also had no low end products to help support the other divisions.
It's not that your opinion is wrong...it's just incomplete.
Ian
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