The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Elson Trinidad shared with us:
> At 12:42 AM 10/9/00 +0200, Peter Korsten wrote:
>  
> >Loke someone says, it's the Japanese way of doing business. You have to keep
> >coming up with new gadgets, otherwise the public gets bored. So the average
> >product lifetime is about two years.
>  
> 
> Hmm. The original DX7 wasn't on the market for two years. How bout the
> KX-88? It's their only strictly MIDI controller to date. And NS-10s have
> been on the market for decades.

Then again, the DX7 has been discontinued as well, as has the KX-88.
I'm not sure if this business practice is something of the last
decade, but please name a Yamaha synth of the last few years that
has been in the catalogue for considerably more than those two,
maybe three years.

By the way, Yamaha has more MIDI controllers: the KX-76, the KX-5
and the (current?) CBXK1. And there' the WX series of wind
comntrollers, plus the guitar controllers, of course.

As for speakers, it's another business unit and there's not much
gadgetry you can put in a speaker. So they don't "age" as fast as
the more technololgy oriented synths do. (Which is rubbish, of
course, since a good synth doesn't age. Otherwisemt he MiniMoog
wouldn't be quite so popular.)

So I think my statement still stands. Mind you, I was quite the
Yamaha fanatic until quite recently, but their business model has
pissed me of big time.

- Peter