Ok, well... maybe you have got me in checkmate with the Kurzweil thing. But hey, at least I admitted to not knowing much about them earlier on!

And as for the MCshit-o-shit series... Roland, as far as I can tell, seemed to go through a spell that lasted from around the mid nineties to 2000 where they tried desperately to convince the world that Grooveboxes were the new synths of the future.

They gave those Grooveboxes a ridiculous amount of hype and attention. In fact, thanks to the Grooveboxes there were, as far as I can tell, no mid ranged Roland synths in production from the mid 90s up until very recently.

That fact alone gives the Grooveboxes a good chance of making it to classic status, in my humble opinion.

Let's remember, Roland and Korg are like the Fender and Gibson of the synth world. They are probably the two most famous synth making companies on the planet. And when people look back in 20 years time and ask themselves, "What synths were Roland making around the turn of the century?", the first thing that will spring to mind will probably be the Grooveboxes. Phantoms and XV88s were made around the same time, but they have always been grossly overpriced (I think) and were therefore never embraced by the masses.