Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I agree that the major manufacturer's are definately over-flooding the 
market with 'new' gear that generally includes misc. and minor 'upgrades' 
to the previous "new gear", alot of which never seems to be FULLY finished 
in
terms of the programming aspect of it (yamaha particularily comes to 
mind), before it's dropped all together and they're once again onto the 
"next" new thing. 

>>>I think Roland and Yamaha both are also guilty of making gear that is 
too dumbed down to be of much use beyond the initial learning stages. I'll 
use Roland as an example here, in that they first came out with the mc303. 
 To their suprise (everyone's really), they sold boatloads more than they 
planned, an in response to lots of user requests, came out with a more 
proper version, the mc505 a couple years later.  After this though, they 
stopped IMPROVING on that base, and instead began releasing cutdown 
versions based on the same technology.  So you got the mc307, the dr202, 
SH32 etc.  Same with the sp808 range, it got better one version after the 
initial release, then they scale back and focus on releasing products 
based on the same technology, but with LESS features (CDX, sp505, etc)! 
It's frustrating to me, in that the larger companies seem to think that 
just because you are into ELECTRONIC music, you can't figure out a piece 
of gear, or will never use it in a pro-oriented situation.  Suddenly if 
you're a DJ and you write music, you have to use gear that looks like 
Sesame Street exploded (sorry Emu guys!), and has a cut down feature set, 
because you're not smart enough to use a 'real' sampler, sequencer, or 
synth.  Bummer! <<<

Not that any of this bothers me, I'm a firm believer in the diversified 
effects of variety in musical applications, and I would prefer that some 
of the major manufactures take there time for once to design some more 
advanced and completely different forms of musical ingenuity...not more 
'groove box this, analog modeling that'.

>>>Exactly my point my man!  Just because we make our music differently, 
doesn't mean we're any less skilled or versed in music technology and the 
skills involved with that.  The funny thing is, it's probably the opposite 
as I wager electronic musicians releasing their own tunes are responsible 
not only for writing and creating, but producing, recording, even 
mastering it all themselves!<<<

Word...

>>>Word squared. <<<

rEalm