Discontinued products

Found out about 2 dicontinued products today..
That where both pretty unique..

Korg micro arranger, which is the only mini key arrnager of some quallity
Orla Jamkey, the wellknown dual manual masterkeyboard, quite popular with V-arranger..

Sad to see these are gone, as they offered something unique...

This is another keyboard, which was once very unique..
And never got anything to come even close to it..

Its kurzweil midiboard..
-has full piano mechanics inside.
- aftertouch.. both channel as well as polyphonic
- release vellocity

And offcourse, retrigger, which as the video allows you to retrigger keys witouth releasing them..

Some things are here to stay forever...

meh.
The Hammond SKX is probably an acceptable surrogate for the Orla Jamkey.

Some design decisions related to the MicroArranger resulted in a lost opportunity IMO... perhaps these could be improved upon...

Specifically, the unit was wider than it should be because of the large area at left for the pitch bender. Consider: the Roland GoKeys, Arturia Keylab 61, and even Korg's own Kross2 are the same size and weight with 61 full size keys!

The pitch bender was a frequent failure point on these boards, and it sticks out when the board is packed up. The on-board speakers weren't very powerful and lacked bass response. So my hopes are for a MAR-2 based on the Kross2, with 61 full size keys and either no speakers (i.e., Bluetooth audio connection), or better quality ones with enough oomph to accompany acoustic instruments. We can hope.

One day genos will be discontinued also... Lol

But we will have many other arrangers left...
There is no other arranger with mini keys on the market..

You cant compare the jamkey to the hammond, the only thing they have in common is 2 keybeds... all the functionallity is different.. and even the keybeds are, the jamkey could have piano keys at the lower keybed if you opted for that,...

Someday we all will be discontinued.

😜