Its a bit complicated, only in the NYC area i know at least 120 Arranger players,
all young guys, most of them my friends, only one person from my side attended.
I asked tonz of them, noone wanted to hear about the show, when Ketron mentioned.
They are 90% Korg users and wont switch for nothing in the world. Ketron showed
more attention to the older Arranger players and Folk music and actually hurt itself
by doing that. And the worst they wont change the policy either. Ketron also was never
heard of in many areas of the world till i came in the picture. I personally never saw or
touched Ketron till May of last year, never saw one in real life before. It was not well
advertised, its OS pushed people away and many other things. Lee, the shows are
nothing to worry about, trust me, even if it was Korg show same people would show up,
none of my KORG lovers would come anyways, they know the machines, they ar busy
so to them makes no difference, show or not. I know over 15 preordered Audya users,
4 of them in NYC, none of them came to the show also, its nothing to worry about but
things with Ketron are kinda complicated. I wish someone would buy that thing.

There is a lot of them, trust me, i dont even consider my self or you as that Young anymore...
but the 120 people i mentioned above, maybe 80% of them are below 25 years of age. They might
be Ethnic players but thats where the Arranger strength is. USA was never a big Arranger thing.
The problem is not people playing with bands but DJs are taking over, everywhere and anywhere.
I know many musicians who played in a band, then went to OMB and now the just DJ...nothing else.

Here in the UK poor it's distribution & dealerships stocking the product. The promotion of the product is nonexistent.
Although this is all down to promotion budget available it's basically down to what is available at a local dealer for people to see & buy.
Here in the UK Yamaha followed by Korg do dealer staff product training so what a salesperson knows he can confidently easy sell.

it's just sad that in order for me to thoroughly test the AUDYA anytime SOON, i have to fly 1,000's of miles back to my small country of Portugal to try it out...

That could be a good thing ....why not enjoy what you already have? Meanwhile there will be more new & exciting arrangers on the way from other manuafacturers & Audya will be a thing of the past.

Dnj,

i don't know,
it seems Roland gave up on their top of line arrangers, and is happy selling more of the "toy" arrangers, i guess they realize what's happened with economy and realize what people can/CANNOT afford...

Yamaha is pretty new with their Tyros3

and Korg, well i guess something from them maybe?

i would love to see something BRAND NEW and GROUNDBREAKING from Roland, Korg, Yamaha come out soon

Lee you have the G70 what more do you need in an arranger?

the G-70 is great, BUT the drums don't cut it for me for many styles.
i guess the Ketron has me spoiled in that dept.

also, i'm not crazy about the guitars or brass on Roland,

i guess what i need is an arranger with the left half of the AUDYA (styles) and the right half of the MOTIF (sounds) :-)

I think most younger players in this country (US) want to be a member of a band...so arrangers are not important to them. They want a synth. Remember the arranger is the 'NEW' organ of today.

Yes, $1,000 too high also.

Lee S.

leeboy,

it's not $1,000 too high
it's $1,000.01 too high :-)

$3,999 "sounds" alot cheaper than $4,000