Yep, you're right James...Yamaha is a wise marketer...they've been in the game over 100 years...they even bailed out Korg, sometime ago, and since you're a Korg user, you should at least be grateful, if not impressed.

Incremental upgrades (actually, much more than incremental, but we'll use your word for now) are nothing new with Yamaha...but, say what you like, the method has been very successful.

You don't make any profit giving away "new" features, but you do make oodles when you sell "new" keyboards.

If it seems stupid, and it works...it probably isn't stupid.

Yamaha has quite obviously learned from their mistakes...let's hope Ketron has the finances to stay afloat long enough to learn from theirs.

Ian

[This message has been edited by ianmcnll (edited 11-19-2009).]