Ian, you really got to try reading a post before you reply to it!

If you, as a twentysomething, could afford a Polymoog, why can't a modern twentysomething afford a MoXF? The Polymoog was probably a LOT more money that a Motif or Fantom, etc..

The reason post-forty year olds buy arrangers is nothing to do with they can afford them. It's because they are the only ones that can stand the bloody awful styles in them...! Bloody awful, that is, by the standards of anyone younger than forty. I know getting old is cool, and all that, but an instrument manufacturer has to keep an eye on the future. Look what happened to home organs. Gone the way of the dodo. Not because arrangers came out and supplanted them. Because younger players moved on to synths, then WS's. They certainly didn't move en masse to arrangers!

As arranger players get older, and older and older, and no sizable pool of new players fills in for the attrition, who is going to keep the type alive? Only making arrangers that cater to the twentysomethings (like the Polymoog catered to them back in YOUR day) will get them to play them.

But they CERTAINLY have the money for them. They are buying MoXf's and Nord's like hotcakes. But they AIN'T buying arrangers... Today's music needs an amalgam of arranger and loopstation features. Only the MS is attempting to combine the two at the moment (and failing epically), but until a major picks up on this, all that is left is that long dark tunnel...

How Yamaha could fail to capitalize on the amazing success of the DJX beats me, and, if you care to look for it, provides yet one MORE example of Yamaha's fallibility. Let's face it, that was the right product at the right price, hit the market squarely on the nose, and Yamaha dropped it like a ton of bricks. The DJXmkII was TERRIBLE compared to the first. And so Yamaha quit making them.

Sounds kinda familiar, actually, doesn't it..?