Karma never failed... But its expensive and not owned by Korg, so Korg only uses it in their high end workstations... After the Karma (in the video) karma technollogy was used in M3, Oasys and Kronos.

Yamaha refuses to pay for 3rd party stuff... kar,a for Motif was not a yamaha thing, but a stand alone application on a pc by Steven Kay. ... However the Montage motion sequencer has copied many things from Karma...

The biggest problem with Karma is that it is extremely hard to program in a way that we are used... Normally our mind creates something and then we will use our tools (in this case Karma) to recreate what is in our mind... The randomness of Karma prevents younfrom working this way...

Karma is a creative tool, you play with the tool till you find something that can be usefull, many people are not used to this kind of workflow.. Karma is like a box of chocolats, you never know what you are gonna get.