With Roland out of the business now, I think it’s time for Yamaha and Korg to take a VERY close look at how Roland’s Makeup Tools simplifies editing styles and SMF’s.

Especially the ease of adjusting drum sounds within a kit and the simple way of adjusting MIDI velocities and volumes per drum sound. Hitting the sweet spot in multi sample drum sounds (drum sounds that use different samples as they are played harder) is the key to great drums, and no two manufacturers (and even no two different arrangers from the same manufacturer) put the switch points at the same velocity. So a style or sequence for one kit rarely transitions across the samples the same way.

You CAN do stuff like this on Korg and Yamaha, but it an incredibly tedious process doing it for each division and even chord type one at a time. Roland made it global, turning something that few attempt into a simple process.

If other manufacturers have copied the Roland Chord Sequencer (and even improved on it), why not this?