I have a feeling that Roland has left the TOTL Arranger line, and it would not surprise me much if they leave MOTL as well....

You never know what Rolamd will do... if there is one company unpredictable its Roland
However, they also seem out of the high end workstation market...
Altough are they? As the fa and ea series offer a whole lot almost on par with the totl instrument of other companies...


What i expect Roland to make next? Thats a hardware instrument that uses the Roland cloud as its major soundsource.. but offers the musicians all possible controll over the most diverse utilities from the hardware...

In Frans defense,....if you talk about a Hammond B3, Fender Rhodes, Stradivarius, etc, which are older instruments no one ever questions it's age or sound quality, etc, ....but, if you mention a Roland G70 etc, it's referred to as Old technology, dinosaur, antique?
just wanted to throw that out...

thoughts?

I guess my question would be whether or not an AKB falls into the same category as a Hammond B3, Rhodes, Strad, Steinway, etc.
Personally, while I think AKBs are great instruments for their use, I would not put them in the same category as the others ...

Well... thats because violins haven’t gotten much better since stradivarius created them..same goes for the Hammond B3... as well as the Fender Rhodes or a steinway piano... their sound is set in stone..


However, the Roland G70 is trying to emulate all those instruments and did a decent job at that back then. But current day instruments have become a) a lot better at emulating those instruments b) are much easier to opperate(espescially the file system) and c) added quite a lot of new features...


You just can’t compare an arranger to those instruments.. because they are entirely different in nature