So far i found 3 new keyboards (2 stagepiano's From Korg an Roland and a synth) on NAMM.. (nit taking into account the gear just announced pre NAMM

More information can be found here :

http://keyszone.boards.net/board/32/new-keyboards

that Roland RD2000 looks awesome!

Any new arrangers as of yet at NAMM?

Not yet, but then not expected either, ..

But i will keep you posted if i find any

ok Bachus thanx......arranger releases have sure slowed down since past years...

Same as workstation releases, Motif had a lifespan of 6 years, Kronos is also almost 6 years, MOXF is 4 years old, FA06 also 4 years old and nothing on the horizon that promises an update to these instruments...

The only thing rapidly adavncing and improving are Vsts, and ipad apps.


When you look at tyros and you see that most people only update every other model, so from 3 to 5 or from 2 to 4... then its obvious why they are slowing down the new models... i do hope however that they also realise that this only works if they make the updates between instruments considerably bigger..

Casio releases the LK series ... very cheap.. but nothing more then a toy..




Even compared to the Roland GO series, i dont consider these instruments, they are definatley toys

http://www.casio.com/products/electronic-musical-instruments/lighted-keys/lk-280

this is slowly the demise of the motl/totl arranger kb as it seems a transition into a new era of technology....I hope Im wrong..

I heard a performance on the RD 2000 at the Roland booth and it sounded awesome. My wife Kerry took a video of a demonstration that I should be able to provide in a couple of days.

Here is a Roland video from NAMM 2017

The big thing about the Roland, is the keybed PHa50, same as the LX17... also Roland supports a new technollogy thats meant to replace midi one day... instead of 128 steps in vellocity it has 128x128 steps, and not just vellocity but it goes for every parameter...16 bits instead of 8 bits

This technollogy was allready inside the RD800, but now its also communicating to external devices (only over USB).. its supposed to give a much more fluent playing experience..

As Namm continues, keyboard news is slowly dropping in..

There is a new Mobile church organ from dexibell, and quite some entry level arrangers from Casio.. and much much more...


We have several News cattegories on :

http://keyszone.boards.net

We plan to make it a place where you can easilly find all keyboard related news, since i am in the habbit of browsing the internet for all kinds of news, i think its a great idea to create a place that conveniently links to all the news.. so keep checking in regularly to read about all the keyboard news in one place (yes i am blatantly promoting the new forum) .... and offcourse, no i dont mean to replace all the great forums overhere at Korgforums.com and PSR tutorial. I hope i can make it a place that adds something to these.. so i hope you dont mind me dropping in from time to time with links to news..

Also added a new banner, hope you like the look of the new forums..