rwn@iham1.UUCP (Bob Neumann) (03/26/86)
The recent article about tunable drum machines mentioned a dealer who discussed discontinuation of the DX-7 and the future of Yamaha in the music industry. This brought to mind a phone discussion I had with one of the owners of a popular chain of music stores in Chicago. Frankly, I don't believe any of the rumours but it will be interesting to see what happens in the industry during the next year. Some of the "interesting rumours" included: Rumour number 1: "YAMAHA is backing completely out of the music business." Translation: This particular store does not have a YAMAHA franchise. Rumour number 2: "At the NAMM show, Kurzweil dropped the price of the 250 by $3,000. EMU dropped the price of the Emulator II by $2,000." Comments: I find this hard to believe -the latest Namm product review in Keyboard magazine states that the price of the Kurzweil 250 increased! Rumour number 3: "At the Namm show, sequential circuits announced that the Prophet 2000 was discontinued." Translation: I asked about their price for the Prophet 2000, and this particular dealer immediately started telling me about the new Roland sampling machines. He's a big Roland dealer- it is in his personal interest to push Roland products more than Sequential. Also, why was the digidesigner software introduced for the Prophet 2000, if the instrument is already discontinued ? As I said before, we will have to wait a while before we see if these rumours are true. Anyone else feel that the dealer in question was going off on the deep end ? Bob Neumann
browne@savax.UUCP (Duff Browne) (03/28/86)
> > Rumour number 3: > "At the Namm show, sequential circuits announced that the Prophet 2000 > was discontinued." > Also, why > was the digidesigner software introduced for the Prophet 2000, if > the instrument is already discontinued ? > I was talking to the head of marketing for sequential not to long ago, and they said they had just introduced the 2000, and were really getting geared up for a large media campaign. I don't think it will be discontinued for a while...