Wouldnt that be the ultimate? Me Yamaha and Korg or Ketron and Yamaha. A powerful combination. Is Roland bigger than Korg? Is technics the reason why we only have few arranger companies meaning theres only room for 4 main companies.

Probably the only two I would like to see merge would be Roland and KORG. They kind of operate the same way when it comes to customer support, and the technology between the two is very different.

From a design point of view, I bet they could come up with some very futuristic gear.

Ketron are best left alone, as someone like Yamaha would only destroy them with their business practices of sell now, screw you later. While Ketron could do with some design help, their keyboards would easily give KORG a run for their money on quality of sounds and styles. It would be hard to choose actually.

Yamaha have always done their own thing, and generally should continue doing more of the same. Nothing really new or ground breaking. Just more of the same only better.

Technics, as far as I know. KORG hired a lot of those guys and bought out a lot of their style libraries. Most of which can be downloaded for free off of korgpa.com

Regards.
James.

Bontempi and Yamaha..and keep the Bontempi name..

Ian

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Cha d’dhùin doras nach d’fhosgail doras.

Irishacts says "Ketron are best left alone, as someone like Yamaha would only destroy them with their business practices of sell now, screw you later. While Ketron could do with some design help, their keyboards would easily give KORG a run for their money on quality of sounds and styles. It would be hard to choose actually."

What is kind of interesting, is that Ketron lost some of their engineers to Korg awhile back and I see more and more Ketron type ideas cropping up in the PA series... syncipating audio loops with styles is one..

Dan O" in Charm City

Description
Digital keyboard, 61 full width keys, with 5 learning levels. 100 sets of pre-recorded chords. 100 polyphonic and mixable basic sounds for the UPPER section (right hand) and LOWER section (left hand). Polyphony 32 notes. Effects: Sustain, Chorus, Reverb, 32 rhythms with Arranger, 4 metronomes,10 demo songs. Easy selection of functions, sounds and rhythms. Controls: Master Volume, Accompaniment Volume, Start/Stop, Intro/Ending, Key Start/Fill In, Down Beat, tempo +/-. Easy play, manual drum, Chord recording. Sequencer to record and play back your performance. Music stand. Amplification: stereo 2 + 2W with high performance speakers. Socket for mains adaptor AD177 (included). Socket for headphones .....

I wanted to say: Ensoniq and Korg, but there's no more Ensoniq, thanks to the E-mu

so maybe..
Korg and Roland,
Roland meing the leader in sound creation and very famous vintage(909, 808..etc..),
and
Korg for making most Logical Sequencer edit features, and other logical features.. and making lots of standars, like: ribbon controller...

Hey Donny, is that your new board?

Guess you gave up waiting for a Pa800 demo.

Nope still using my very trusty 3k....all the other KB's I tried fell short....still cant find a PA800 american non factory video demo....still waiting for Don M to give me a full review and some real demos
& still waiting for the S900 to come to market....but at least the Bontempi has speakers

roland and korg...
with a yamaha OS

Yamaha and Korg-Korg sounds,seq and synth editing power ,yam OS and styles and some sounds.

Roland and Casio...and call it Rolio.

Roland sounds and OS with the dramatic increase in build quality that Casio will bring.

Chord recognition upgraded to include not only an an even more simplified single finger mode, but a new "all thumbs" mode as well.

Rolio...available at a Wal-Mart or Canadian Tire store near you.

Ian

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Cha d’dhùin doras nach d’fhosgail doras.

I'm going to play nay-sayer, of course....!

I don't want to see ANY of them combine..... Fewer manufacturers mean fewer choices. I approve of them stealing each other's good ideas, though (unless they can patent them!).

Everybody here has a different reason for why THEIR arranger is the best FOR THEM.....

Rather than combine manufacturers, let's combine FEATURES...... here's a quote from a post I wrote a couple of days ago about my perfect arranger
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"Now if I could combine the T2's SA and Mega voices, Break/Fill, and multi pads with the Korg's detailed voice editing and sample import, TC Helion and very contemporary drum samples, with the G70's V-Drums and GrandX piano patch, VK-series B3 sim, OS and layout, and of course the action(!), add in the MS's and Wersi's VSTi ability and sample RAM speed loading, wrap it up in a composite shell to bring the total weight down to about 25lbs, and top it of with a dollop of Chord Sequencer features, well, THEN i probably wouldn't have a thing to post about, I'd be too busy playing!
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What's YOURS......?

The more we talk about these kinds of things, the more likely the industry is going to sit up and take notice.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Diki:

, I'd be too busy playing!

I have a feeling you would think of something else and would still be posting.


Jerry

Hi

Mercedes and Daewoo.

The car from Mercedes and the price from Daewoo.

Jørgen

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The Unofficial YAMAHA Keyboard Resource Site

Sunsweet (the prune juice company) and TANG....they could call it PRUNE-TANG.

chas

Dan,



Maybe you are confusing Ketron with Gem?

Paolo


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