What keeps to sadden me is that digital keyboards don't seem to catch up with overall technological progress. As mentioned in the video, the touchscreen is not sensitive enough, although $30 phone has no such problem. Keyboards like Roland Juno DS or Korg Kross sound very far from contemporary, even orchestral sounds of Korg Krome are far from realistic, which is not taken kindly by today's music business. A lot of today's pop music is made without any digital workstation. I don't imagine that there's much use in onboard midi or audio sequencer. It's natural that people prefer computer based alternatives, where you can combine everything, you have a large screen or two, and it costs less. But I'm sort of emotionalist when it comes to music, and I'd rather have physical machines than VSTs. But they don't seem to get cheaper, which seems unnatural. PSR-S670 was replaced with PSR-SX600 and it appears that PSR-SX600 costs about $300 more. Heavy!

I don't really see how you can promote digital keyboards, at least, in my country. Things like a washing machine or an air conditioner used to be luxurious here, now it seems that you can get one of them or an entry-level keyboard instead. Like PSR-E463 or Casio CT-X3000 with nothing fancy about them; their screens are not even graphical and most of their sounds, sorry to say, are pretty toyish.

In the same time I must admit that my judgements can be affected by my personal emotional state. Mostly I'm more interested in a guitar right now and I'm probably content with it and Juno DS as a piano. I takes all my available time already. I might miss the old times where a new keyboard provided new horizons and now when I have almost a TOTL arranger I have to look for new horizons some other way.

It's a bit ironic to play with $100 wooden thing while your $1500 keyboards are leaned on the wall.

Sorry for hijacking the topic; it doesn't seem to be much activity here, so I figured it wouldn't be a problem.