I think Roland missed a big opportunity in an otherwise scare arranger module market. As far as I know Ketron is the only other company that produces arranger modules and since they basically own the market they've taken it upon themselves to charge "through the nose" for their arranger module products needless to say. If Roland would have ponied up more R&D toward the BK7m and invested more expertise in the Style department they could have charged a couple grand ($2,000 or so) and released a product worthy of the Roland moniker. An excellent $2,000 arranger module would have been much preferred to the current and apparently mediocre BK7m needless to say. It seems lately Roland is concentrating on low-priced offerings that appeal to... not many. On the other hand, if they had released an excellent module at twice or three times the cost of the BK7m it would have enticed many more experienced users into purchasing one and they would have still been way ahead of the game price-wise, compared to the astronomically priced Ketrons. Even Roland apparently knew that the BK7m wasn't going to be a "winner" when their own demonstrator shoved it aside to gather dust at a recent music fest. Although, I do think the new Jupiter-80 is a fantastic product but of course it's a keyboard and not an arranger module.

All the best, Mike