We on this site are hardly what I'd call ‘typical’ arranger users. Let’s face it, we’re a few dozen engaged users! If we are the industry’s future, it’s no wonder Roland quit making them!

But, let’s just say the trend becomes to wait until the dust settles on buying a new TOTL arranger… I certainly think this would ramp up pressure on the manufacturers to ensure they don’t release half-finished product thinking that somebody will buy it no matter what state it’s in.

Anyone remember the days before OS’s could be updated? Somehow the manufacturers weren’t so desperate for sales that they ignored obvious bugs, knowing they COULDN’T take their time and fix it when they felt like it.

I don’t offer advice thinking that everyone will follow it… I know there are people that don’t think at all, and buying the ‘latest, greatest’ is a reflex. Thank God there are, in these days of few brick and mortar music stores carrying TOTL arrangers for us to actually play before we’re forced to buy..!

I just hope that here on SZ, the home for ‘dedicated’ arranger users, there’s an opportunity to inject a little sanity into the mad rush for new product. If we ALL here waited a few months for the truth to come out, I doubt it would even make a blip in the sales figures..!