I must confess that I have several times been offered discounts at trade shows. They were courtesy discounts, as in one dealer to another, or their employees, and were often for special unboxed items used for demo purposes in the show.

That Russ may have in the past experienced this (if I am gathering this right), the issue should only be a factor if AJ does this to the general public, away from a trade show (where the public doesn't go) and sells boxed, new goods. Has this happened?

BTW, before everyone goes off the deep end for AJ's sounds and styles edits, and gets all indignant that Ketron don't incorporate them, how about an actual A/B comparison... One man's meat is another man's poison. You may not even LIKE the edits...!

But I can see a lot of requests from the Yamaha type players that they might like the drums turned down, maybe edited a bit less in your face... Maybe that's what AJ has been doing? Trying to turn a ballsy live arranger into the same kind of canned muzak arrangers so many like?

(BTW, I will save Ian the hassle of typing out that I am one of those looking for that Yamaha sound... I would only have to reply that there are certain types of gigs where you NEED that canned muzak sound! And some where you don't... )