With Covid having depressed the global economy, and professional musicians especially, not to mention putting the brakes on component production in China, I wouldn’t put much faith in the schedule of new model release staying consistent from pre-Covid times.

Personally, I’d be quite surprised at a new model being much sooner than a couple of years past its usual release schedule…

Yamaha at least have a revenue stream from copy protected sample packs and new styles, so they aren’t painted into quite the same corner that Korg may have found themselves, with no easy DRM system and a habit of releasing new styles for free (which is excellent if you can still keep your new hardware release schedule to underwrite it, but a problem when that dries up).

Maybe it’s time to reevaluate our gear lust, and try instead to wring as much as is humanly possible from the gear we have? I guarantee, few if any of us have even wrung 50% of it! Get in there, try to master those new features (I bet few are starting to really lean on the new chord sequencers), edit your favorite styles and sequences to use all the new kits and sounds, add those new insert effects to style and sequence Parts, not just your solo sounds, experiment with foot controllers to cut back on your button pushing so you can work more on actually PLAYING…

Now seems like a really good time to do it, before production of new models distracts us again! 😂😎🎹