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#459549 - 10/12/18 12:26 PM
Re: OT: Lowrey Closing
[Re: abacus]
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Registered: 04/28/06
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Loc: North Texas, USA
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A little OT, but Bill I didn't think customers in the US (or anywhere) had input into Roland's development. The BK-9 was extremely rare here in the US and its development was pretty much abandoned with some pernicious bugs still present in the O.S. It seems like every time Roland moves onto a new series, they fire the old development team and reinvent the wheel. This introduces new bugs, and sometimes desireable features go missing. Very frustrating.
As for Lowrey, they did make a few keyboards in the 1980s I think (teeny Genie, Micro Genie, etc.) I hope someone licenses the intellectual property rights to their intelligent chord system. It was useful and pretty good--nearly as good as Roland's IMO.
As Don said, I'm not interested in a $20,000 piece of furniture. But arrangers are 85% software and 15% thoughtful ergonomics. If the Lowrey software and some of the control interface (like the touch strip) live on, all is not lost!
Edited by TedS (10/12/18 12:27 PM)
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#459568 - 10/12/18 04:30 PM
Re: OT: Lowrey Closing
[Re: TedS]
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A little OT, but Bill I didn't think customers in the US (or anywhere) had input into Roland's development. The BK-9 was extremely rare here in the US and its development was pretty much abandoned with some pernicious bugs still present in the O.S. It seems like every time Roland moves onto a new series, they fire the old development team and reinvent the wheel. This introduces new bugs, and sometimes desireable features go missing. Very frustrating.
As for Lowrey, they did make a few keyboards in the 1980s I think (teeny Genie, Micro Genie, etc.) I hope someone licenses the intellectual property rights to their intelligent chord system. It was useful and pretty good--nearly as good as Roland's IMO.
As Don said, I'm not interested in a $20,000 piece of furniture. But arrangers are 85% software and 15% thoughtful ergonomics. If the Lowrey software and some of the control interface (like the touch strip) live on, all is not lost! Roland did listen, hence the reason the G70 V2 came out to fix most of the complaints with the original G70. (When the G70 first came out it was a bit of a joke but when they bought out the G70 V2 (Which was a firmware update) it became one of the best arrangers of its time) The BK9 was discontinued shortly after it was launched (Roland had lost interest in arrangers) so was scarce everywhere. It’s sad to see Roland arrangers go, as they made some cracking ones, but that’s just life. (At least you still have the BK5 & BK7m as well as a couple of lesser boards) Bill
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