In western music playing arranger world , Yamaha (arrangers)will outsell Roland and Korg just because of the SIMPLER (yet effective)styles,OS and 3 rd party support.Yes they have not as great drums and bass,VH and hardware.(Yammy's PSR A /O models are also doing well for ease of use despite complaints about their hardware and overall sound).

Has been,most likely will continue.

Unless the following happens
1.Korg fires the style team and put new people who understands how to make a simpler style without over orchestration,how to a program a fill and why we need more fills than 2+1.
2.Korg replaces some folks form OS team - ask the design team serious questions like this- why do they have to carry old PA80 format where you need to press A/B button to change sounds (Piano to Sax) or styles (8 beats to Bossa).A serious draw back where you need to change sound or style in arranger mode(you have to see the lights).


In non western music playing arranger worldmarket is also huge (more than 65 % of total pro arranger sales) -Arabic,turkish,iranian and other mid east market and also former USSR republics -armanian,azerbycan etc)-Ketron,Korg(major players) and Roland(smaller market now,was better in mid and late 90's) will continue to rule:Because of the sampler (Korg) which can load ethnic solos sounds/percussion and pro 3 rd party styles out there for last 15 years .Since Yam is not making what they need(meaning Tyros like oriental arranger with VH,not even like s900 like arranger with VH, only lower mid models like S700 level),Korg is selling well(that makes Korg think they don't have to change anything since the market is bigger than westen music market -we are talking about pro arrangers -not PSR 295).


Korg should have learned thier lesson from Psr 2k-PA80 days.PA 80 great sounds,limited VH,bad OS - Vs - PSr2k -Ease of use,Better display and multi pads (Yes multi pads that play loops are new for Korg - started in Pa1xs with OS update).PA 800 is a great tool but they still need to fix style/fill/layout department.they have better seq,sound editing plus others -but again - missing the point of as arranger------STYLES and FILLS that are to be used to make a backing song to sing/play along with!!


By the way PA2x wins on keys department.YES ,better than G70!(which I loved).G70 was better than PA1x pro.



[This message has been edited by jamman (edited 02-11-2008).]