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My main problem is Roland’s refusal to release a complete product. Everything is hampered in some way. They have this persistent marketing paranoia of their products competing against each other or cannibalizing sales of products from other product sales, past or present.

Part of the problem is just having too much width in the product line. Wanting to absolutely cover every damn inch of market by a bloated line of similar products and repackaged tech. If they shrunk the line, consolidated features, and didn’t have engineering resources spread so thin they could actually support the stuff they sell. It might also help with Roland’s inability to carry innovation across generations: “we made great sequencers years ago but forgot how now” or “we used to build thorough and complete MIDI implementations but now we can barely manage clock sync” or “we used to have functioning aftertouch keyboards but lost the secret formula”. Enough to drive any consumer crazy.

Aira, aira compact, Fantom, boutique all just crippled in some inane way. Some in multiple ways. Roland could fix it but they don’t.

I see why there’s so much frustration and annoyance.

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My main problem is Roland’s refusal to release a complete product. Everything is hampered in some way. They have this persistent marketing paranoia of their products competing against each other or cannibalizing sales of products from other product sales, past or present.

Part of the problem is just having too much width in the product line. Wanting to absolutely cover every damn inch of market by a bloated line of similar products and repackaged tech. If they shrunk the line, consolidated features, and didn’t have engineering resources spread so thin they could actually support the stuff they sell. It might also help with Roland’s inability to carry innovation across generations: “we made great sequencers years ago but forgot how now” or “we used to build thorough and complete MIDI implementations but now we can barely manage clock sync” or “we used to have functioning aftertouch keyboards but lost the secret formula”. Enough to drive any consumer crazy.

Aira, aira compact, Fantom, boutique all just crippled in some inane way. Some in multiple ways. Roland could fix it but they don’t.

I see why there’s so much frustration and annoyance.

Wise words.

Le gros studio bourré de bécanes vintages de Rosen, et 2 impros à la fin cool, qu'on aime ou pas Claudio l'hyperactif

Le gros studio bourré de bécanes vintages de Rosen, et 2 impros à la fin cool, qu'on aime ou pas Claudio l'hyperactif:

Je sais Odon que tu ne manques jamais de sous entendre l’incohérence de cette marque en choisissant les propos qui vont dans ce sens, il faudrait se demander si leurs acheteurs sont si mécontents d’acheter leurs machines.
Apres voila les débats sont ouverts, mais comme tu présentes les choses c’est comme si tout le monde pensait cela, il ne me semble pas;
Je ne trouve pas illogique pour une marque d’avoir tellement investi dans un écosystème qu’ils le déclinent en nombre de produit conséquents, rien de nouveau ils ne sont pas les seuls dans l’industrie.(rien que les bagnoles qu’on achete par millions face a nos synthés sont centrés sur des plateformes communes, des moteurs communs …et des tonnes de limitations artificielles pour niveller les gammes..c’est bien pire.)

“we made great sequencers years ago but forgot how now”

“we used to build thorough and complete MIDI implementations but now we can barely manage clock sync”

“we used to have functioning aftertouch keyboards but lost the secret formula”