My instinctive guess is that Roland will not return to the arranger arena...I think they will focus instead on pro instruments (stage pianos, organs, workstations), or home keyboards like the VIMA.

As Dennis said on another thread, " It started with the Fantom G really, maybe even earlier. The market was expecting something pretty big, and Roland delivered a real dud!!"


Then there was the terrible sales record of the G70 and then E80/60/50....bad marketing did them in.

I think they are struggling to regain their once substantial share in the keyboard market...couldn't have been much money left to do more R&D for new arranger features that would let them catch up to Korg and Yamaha.

A new Roland arranger would be nice to see, as competition always benefits us players, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Ian