I think the GW-8 and Preludes both need a style editing update, to be honest. Yes, you can get them sounding VERY punchy, but still even and smooth, if you edit the styles, but OOTB, I just think they sound a little rough. I have felt for quite a while that whoever was responsible for making the soundsets and styles for Roland arrangers has long left the company. And whatever is coming out now just sounds rushed and poorly beta or market tested. It's not that the arrangers themselves are intrinsically bad, but they do need editing to sound their best, and some of the features that help them stand out don't arrive until OS2, by which time, most people have already made their minds up.

If the GW-8 shipped from the start with OS2, and if sufficient attention had been payed to making the ROM style balances better, who knows where they would be now?

But Roland always seem a little too late to the party, these days.

BTW, Ian... "Most of Tyros buyers are in their 50's, with a fair amount in their 60's and over..." means in ten years, most will be over sixty, with a fair number in their seventies, and ten years ago, most were in their forties with a fair number in their fifties. Now, I'm pretty sure you are starting to feel what the difference in needs and attitudes and spending habits forty year olds and sixty year olds have

I'm just saying... How many TOTL organs are sold each year compared to 1970? A tiny fraction. How are arrangers going to fare any differently, if they don't completely change into something younger players (in the majority) want to play? There are still kids in their teens playing home organs too, you know. Just not very many! An industry can't survive on a few diehard fanatics.