I checked on the NAMM website and unfortunately Ketron won't be at the winter NAMM show since they are NOT on the Exhibitors list.
Roland will be located in the centralized Arena area having secured the second largest floor space of any of the exhibitors with Yamaha having the largest.
It will be an interesting NAMM nonetheless, and if Roland indeed comes through with a G70 successor it will certainly ignite new excitement within the arranger community. Ketron already has the Audya, with probably no replacement in sight for at least a couple more years and dare I say Yammie is probably two more years away from a Tyros3 successor too no doubt. Okay, so that leaves us with Korg but since they just released the Pa2XPRO not too long ago we probably won't see much in the way of new high-end arranger products from them for a couple more years as well. So basically it looks like around the 'end' of 2011 that we'll start to see some major high-end activity finally filtering in such as a Tyros??4, Pa3XPRO, Audya II??, etc.
That again leaves us with just Roland with an outside chance of them releasing their G70 successor at winter NAMM '10. But with the global economy bogged down for the last year and a half we may not see the new Roland until perhaps summer NAMM '10 or winter NAMM '11, which would truly be unfortunate.
Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best I suppose.. or get on our knees and pray for a miracle.
Either way, I'm looking forward to all the buzz NAMM generates.
All the best,
Mike
[This message has been edited by keybplayer (edited 12-26-2009).]