Originally posted by Diki: no reason for Roland, who are obviously struggling to find a reason to stay in the arranger business at all (and who can blame them, as young players are giving them a wide berth) to try to invent a new market segment.
Agree...The silly thing is Roland have the future market staring them in the face...if only they would see it.
Create an keyboard with the quality sampling of the the XS/XF series, but with that unique Roland "flavour" with bucketloads of quality arps and an "arp engine", BUT also include the arranger engine from say the G70 (or an improved version). But do not identify it as such. Maybe call them Arp Link Pads or something
Throw in flash for user samples and there it is...