Its becomming more and more obvious, it plummeted in the crisis and is still deep below the sea of the living..

Its not only arranger sales, but also synth and synth/workstation sales, espescially the expensive ones... There is a reason we have seen Fa06, Krome and MOXF at under €1000 as the only new instruments in the last few years.

There is a reason we havent seen a new Motif or Fantom for so long.. Not enough people are currently willing to play those amounts of money for something that does not substantially improve the way they make music. And they have obviously no clue how to make a new workstation that will be an instant succes and will make everyone spend their good dollars on it....

Yes there are still people upgrading, but not enough, and the synth market has the same problem as the arranger market, there is almost no new younger people wanting to spend huge amounts of time in learning to play an instrument. And if they do, they choose a guitar or the drums, as they are much more popular. But not key instruments..

And while Tyros 5 was a huge succes, the dealers currently have no clue how to improve it further to apeal to the good old buyers group and make them upgrade another time.. Sure they are still wondering why the t5 never got the double midiplayer they begged for, but for the rest, they have no real ideas how to improve things, a touchscreen would not be appreciated by most of the current buyers, as that would change to much the Interface they grow used too, and they dont care for good synthsounds or real time controll..


In the end, the big tree seem to have a problem in choosing a direction, Roland left the TOTL market and has no plans to return to it. Korg feels its the most technically advanced and sees no reason to produce new top instruments. And Yamaha is clueless..


If they want to pull in new and pull back old custumors, it seems a time for change ....